Effects of pars flaccida on sound conduction in ears of Mongolian gerbil: Acoustic and anatomical measurements

Hearing Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 39-65

  Teoh, Su Wooi ^b   Flandermeyer, Deborah T ^b   Rosowski, John J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

acoustics; anatomy; middle ear; models; pars flaccida; tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EARDRUM; GERBIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EAR, MIDDLE; GERBILLINAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0030940040     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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