Ear Anatomy MCQs
Ear Anatomy MCQs
These Ear Anatomy multiple-choice questions and their answers will help you strengthen your grip on the subject of Ear Anatomy. You can prepare for an upcoming exam or job interview with these Ear Anatomy MCQs.
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1: What are the three main parts of the ear?
A. The eardrum, the middle ear and the inner ear.
B. The external ear, the middle ear and the eardrum.
C. The external ear, the eardrum and the inner ear.
D. The external ear, the middle ear and the inner ear.
2: How many main parts does the ear have?
A. Five
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
3: What are auditory ossicles?
A. Eardrum
B. Cochlea
C. Malleus (or hammer), incus and staphes
D. Earwax
4: What are the three auditory ossicles?
A. Pharynx, larynx, trachea
B. Molars, incisors, canines
C. Cochlea, vestibule, semicircular canals
D. Malleus, incus, stapes
5: What is the cochlea?
A. The cochlea is an organ of hearing.
B. The cochlea is located in the temporal bone.
C. The cochlea is a spiral shaped tube.
D. The cochlea is filled with fluid.
6: What is the name of the thin membrane that closes the external ear canal?
A. Eardrum
B. Anvil
C. Malleus
D. Hammer
7: What is the function of the eardrum?
A. It separates the outer ear from the middle ear.
B. It helps to amplify sound.
C. The function of the eardrum is transmitted from the sound to the auditory ossicles.
D. The function of the eardrum is to protect the inner ear.
8: What is the pathogenic mechanism of Ménière's disease?
A. Lack of proper nutrition
B. Too much sleep
C. Abnormal circulation of the inner era fluids
D. Dehydration
9: What is contained in the vestibular aqueduct?
A. The round window
B. The vestibular aqueduct orifice
C. The cochlear aqueduct
D. The ductus endolymphaticus
10: What is the External Auditory Canal?
A. The External Auditory Canal is the passageway from the inner ear to the middle ear.
B. The External Auditory Canal is the passageway from the middle ear to the inner ear.
C. The External Auditory Canal is the passageway from the outer ear to the middle ear.
D. The External Auditory Canal is the passageway from the outer ear to the inner ear.
11: What is the external auditory meatus?
A. The inner ear.
B. The middle ear.
C. The outer ear.
D. A tube that runs between the outer ear and middle ear.
12: The external ear is formed by the auricle, the external auditory meatus and _____.
A. Incus
B. Eardrum
C. Malleus
D. Cochlea
13: What is the bony wall of the osseus labirinth called?
A. Sphenoid bone
B. Occipital bone
C. Ethmoid bone
D. Temporal bone
14: What is the bony labirinth also known as?
A. Semicircular Canals
B. Cochlea
C. Osseus Labirinth
D. Vestibule of the Ear
15: What is the Incus?
A. A small bone situated in the middle ear
B. A muscle in the ear
C. A disease of the ear
D. A type of earwax
16: What does the inner ear contain?
A. The cochlea and the vestibular system.
B. The middle ear.
C. The area surrounding the eardrum.
D. The outer ear.
17: What is the malleus?
A. A small bone situated in the middle ear
B. A type of virus
C. A symptom
D. A disease
18: Malleus is a small bone situated in which part of the ear?
A. Inner ear
B. Middle ear
C. Outer ear
D. Pinna
19: What is the mastoid antrum?
A. The study of teeth
B. The muscles of the mouth
C. A bone in the back
D. A locaded in the epitympanic recess
20: What is the name of the sinus located behind the ear?
A. Xiphoid process
B. Metabolism
C. Mastoid antrum
D. Epidermis
21: What are the three auditory ossicles in the middle ear?
A. Malleus, Incus, Stapes
B. Malleus, Stapes, Tympanic Membrane
C. Incus, Stapes, Tympanic Membrane
D. Oval Window, Round Window, Tympanic Membrane
22: Which of the following does NOT belong to the middle ear?
A. Stapes
B. Round window
C. Malleus
D. Incus
23: What is the other name for otolith?
A. Stapes
B. Incus
C. Malleus
D. Statolith
24: What is the Saccule?
A. The larger of the two vestibular sacs.
B. The smaller of the two vestibular sacs.
C. Part of the ear canal.
D. A type of cells in the inner ear.
25: What is the smaller of the two vestibular sacs called?
A. Cochlea
B. Sacculus
C. Utricle
D. Saccule
26: What are the three canal of labirinth?
A. Semicircular canal
B. Horizontal
C. Inferior
D. Superior
27: How many semicircular canal are present in human ear?
A. Two
B. One
C. Four
D. Three
28: What is the third ossicle in the middle ear called?
A. Malleus
B. Base
C. Stapes
D. Incus
29: Which of the following is not a part of the stapes?
A. Head
B. Base
C. Incus
D. Malleus
30: What is the vestibular aqueduct?
A. A passageway for blood vessels and nerves
B. The end of the spinal cord
C. The innermost part of the ear
D. A bony canal that goes from the medial faccial the vestibule outside the temporal bone
31: Which of the following is NOT a symptom of enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome?
A. Children
B. Bony canal from medial faccial to the vestibule
C. Enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct
D. Unilateral hearing loss
32: What is the vestibular system responsible for?
A. Swallowing
B. Maintaining balance
C. Blinking
D. Breathing
33: What is the cartilaginous outside part of the ear called?
A. Tympanic membrane
B. Incus
C. Malleus
D. Pinna
34: What is a "meatus"?
A. A pasta dish
B. A canal-like passageway
C. A small mammal
D. The plural of
35: What is Meatus?
A. Canal-like passageway
B. A type of bread
C. A narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies of water
D. A small, landlocked country
36: What is the tympanic membrane?
A. The outermost ear bone
B. The innermost ear bone
C. The small bone in the middle ear
D. Eardrum
37: What is the outermost curvature of the ear called?
A. Helix
B. Tragus
C. Cartilage
D. Ear lobe
38: What is the antihelix?
A. The innermost part of the ear
B. The inner rim of the ear
C. The cartilage in the ear
D. The outermost part of the ear
39: What is the definition of "concha"?
A. The outer part of the ear
B. The concave shell of the ear; the deepest depression of the ear
C. A small hard candy
D. A type of pasta
40: What is the tragus?
A. Cartilaginous projection anterior to the external opening of the ear
B. Innermost layer of the skin
C. Largest bone in the human body
D. Outermost layer of the skin
41: What is the Antitragus of ear?
A. A small eminence obliquely opposite the tragus. Located on the superior border of the lobe of the ear.
B. The point ofapproximation of the palpebral fissures when looking straight ahead.
C. The lower end of the earlobe.
D. The depression of the cheek just below the eye.
42: What is the name of the small eminence located on the superior border of the lobe of the ear?
A. Tragus
B. Antitragus
C. Superiotragus
D. Antitlobe
43: What is the Perichondrium?
A. Elastic cartilage of the epiglottis
B. Peripheral cartilage of the ear
C. A dense irregular connective tissue membrane that covers cartilage.
D. Costal cartilage of the ribs
44: What is the meaning of the word "malleus"?
A. Auditory
B. Hammer
C. Ossicles
D. First
45: What is the meaning of "pars flaccida"?
A. Long, flat muscle in the lower back
B. Inferior, narrow passage between the third and fourth ventricles of the brain
C. Large, taut, inferior section of tympanic membrane
D. Small, slack, superior section of tympanic membrane
46: What is the thick, taut, central-inferior section of the tympanic membrane called?
A. Pars tensa
B. Pars flaccida
C. Incus
D. Malleus
47: What is the pars tensa?
A. The area where the chorda tympani enters the tympanic cavity
B. The thin, lax, superior section of the tympanic membrane
C. The region just inferior to the handle of malleus
D. The thick, taut, central-inferior section of the tympanic membrane
48: What is the vagus nerve?
A. The tenth cranial nerve that innervates only the heart
B. The ninth cranial nerve that innervates digestive organs, heart and other areas
C. The eleventh cranial nerve that innervates digestive organs, heart and other areas
D. The tenth cranial nerve that innervates digestive organs, heart and other areas
49: What is the name for the cartilaginous ridge arising at the bifurcation of the antihelix?
A. Inferior helical crus
B. Superior helical crus
C. Crus helicis
D. Crus of the helix
50: What is the scapha of the ear?
A. The muscle that controls the movement of the ear
B. The skin that covers the outer ear
C. The fossa between the inner and outer rims of the ear
D. The cartilage that forms the outer ear
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