Ménière's disease, a chronic inner ear condition, causes recurring dizziness, hearing loss, tinnitus, and ear pressure. These ...

Your inner ear sits in a hollowed-out part of the temporal bone (located on the side and base of your skull). The cochlea, which is a spiral-shaped organ that contains fluid (perilymph and endolymph), ...

The inner hair cells are arranged in a single row and remain free to respond to movement of endolymph in the cochlear duct. The outer hair cells are arranged in 3 rows in the basal coil of the ...

The sensory organs in the inner ear have a common evolutionary origin and share many features. At the core of these organs are sensory hair cells capable of detecting nanometer-scale motions induced ...

Normally, Reissner's membrane remains in situ and is shown as a straight border between the endolymph-containing scala media and perilymph-containing scala vestibuli. Mild EH displays an extrusion of ...

Background: Meniere’s disease (MD) is an idiopathic chronic inner ear disease that seriously impacts patients’ physical and mental health. Medications may be effective for a proportion of patients, ...