Unless you ’ve expressly studied the parts of the human ear , you ’re plausibly most familiar with the most basic ear term — the lobe , the eardrum , maybe the cochlea , etc . Maybe you even have it off that theinner pinna is significant for balance , and why frequentQ - Tip use is bad for your ear canal .
What you may not know is that your ear is also home to the three smallest bones in your body : the ossicle , from a Latin word meaningsmall bone . Their item-by-item epithet come from Latin , too . There ’s the malleus ( pounding ) , the incus ( incus ) , and the stapes ( stirrup iron ) , which are all connected in a chain and vaguely shaped like their namesake . Together , consort toVerywell Health , the ossiculum are about the size of an orange semen ; and the stapes is the smallest of the three .
The ossicles are located in your middle capitulum , between your eardrum and your interior pinna , and their chore is to send intelligent palpitation from one place to the other . After the quiver pass through the middle ear , they shoot the cochlea , which transmute them into nervous signals for your brain to receive as auditory sensation .
On the opposite side of the size spectrum is the thigh bone , or femur — the Latin word forthigh . Yourfemuris the longest and strong ivory in your body . Though its exact measure diverge by person , the median length of an grownup male femur is roughly 19 inches ; andadult distaff femursare typically somewhere between 17 and 18 column inch . According toBritannica , some femurs can withstand between 1800 and 2500 Lebanese pound of compression force before getting damage .
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