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:It is believed that non-mammals have poor hearing at high frequencies because the sound-conduction performance of their single-ossicle middle ears declines above a certain frequency. To better understand this behavior, a dynamic three-dimensional finite-element model of the chicken middle ear was constructed. The effect of changing the flexibility of the cartilaginous extracolumella on middle-ear sound conduction was simulated from 0.125 to 8 kHz, and the influence of the outward-bulging cone shape of the eardrum was studied by altering the depth and orientation of the eardrum cone in the model. It was found that extracolumella flexibility increases the middle-ear pressure gain at low frequencies due to an enhancement of eardrum motion, but it decreases the pressure gain at high frequencies as the bony columella becomes more resistant to extracolumella movement. Similar to the inward-pointing cone shape of the mammalian eardrum, it was shown that the outward-pointing cone shape of the chicken eardrum enhances the middle-ear pressure gain compared to a flat eardrum shape. When the outward-pointing eardrum was replaced by an inward-pointing eardrum, the pressure gain decreased slightly over the entire frequency range. This decrease was assigned to an increase in bending behavior of the extracolumella and a reduction in piston-like columella motion in the model with an inward-pointing eardrum. Possibly, the single-ossicle middle ear of birds favors an outward-pointing eardrum over an inward-pointing one as it preserves a straight angle between the columella and extrastapedius and a right angle between the columella and suprastapedius, which provides the optimal transmission.
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Biomech Model Mechanobioljournal_title
Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiologyauthors
Muyshondt PGG,Dirckx JJJdoi
10.1007/s10237-019-01207-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-02-01 00:00:00pages
233-249issue
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1617-7959issn
1617-7940pii
10.1007/s10237-019-01207-4journal_volume
19pub_type
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