Figure 2: Ear pinna regeneration is not dependent on hole ... Tokyo, Japan) using a charge-coupled device camera (Olympus). To obtain representative images across several fields, a digital ...

Although the inner ear is capable of producing a significant electrical current, it's still very low and the team could only extract a little so as to keep the charge low and not interfere with ...

It turns out these pieces—also called pinnae or auricula—act like funnels: They collect, amplify and direct sound waves to the ear canal. Pinnae are not randomly created. Take the human pinna ...

Our hair cells are in our internal ear, the part that does the actual hearing that sits behind a thin membrane or eardrum. The outside part, called the pinna, works like a satellite dish to ...

Those external folds of cartilage and skin, called the pinna, have important resonant properties that modify high-frequency sound waves entering the ear before funneling them to the middle ear.

Cancer cells might grow in any of the three parts of the external ear constituting the fleshy visible pinna (the auricle), the ear canal, and the outer layer of the eardrum (tympanic membrane).