Bone conduction headphones take advantage of a sound pathway that bypasses both the ear canal and ear drum. They vibrate against your bones—usually those in front of the ear—and send sounds ...

The middle ear bones conduct sound from the ear drum to the fluids of the inner ear. The ear drum is bigger than the oval window. The decrease in the area of these two membranes leads to an increase ...

Sound waves pass through the canal of the external ear and vibrate the eardrum, which separates the external ear from the middle ear. The three small bones in the middle ear (hammer or malleus, anvil ...

In bone conduction, sound skips the ear drum. Instead, the tech converts sound waves into vibrations that are sent through the skull bones directly to the place deep inside the ear called the cochlea.

On the opposite side of the ear drum, that motion is detected and amplified 20 times by 3 tiny bones collectively called the ossicles, which are linked together end to end by ligaments.

Their job is to transmit sounds from the ear drum to the liquid of the inner ear. Illnesses, accidents and tumors can damage these bones, causing what’s known as “conductive hearing loss.” ...

According to one ear, nose, and throat doctor I found: No, it’s actually not. “I don’t agree that swabbing your ears regularly is dangerous and should be avoided,” said William Portnoy ...

Over millennia, bits of jaw bone in our not-quite-mammalian ancestors migrated and detached, forming two of the middle ear bones as well as the bone that supports the eardrum, Le Maître explains.

No bone-conduction headphones can match the audio quality you’ll get from conventional headphones when it comes to listening to music, whether or not assisted by a near-ear bass speaker.

The Shokz OpenFit Bluetooth earbuds ($179.95) are called “air conduction” in a twist on the brand’s bone conduction brethren. Like many open-ear buds before them, they are positioned just ...

Benign cysts in your ear, called cholesteatomas, may not cause cancer. But they can affect your hearing, balance, and more. WebMD tells you how to spot them and how they're treated.