ASP 303 Exam 3 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025-2026
Auricle/Pinna - Answers Serves to collect sound and direct it to the external auditory canal.
Enhance - Answers Pinna also serves to _____ sound in its resonant frequency region
2-7 kHz - Answers What is the Pinna's resonant frequency region?
External Auditory Meatus - Answers This is the canal that extends from the Pinna to the tympanic
membrane
Outer Walls - Answers The portion of the EAM that is lined with epithelial cells and made up of cartilage
Sebaceous Glands - Answers This produces and creates cerumen
Temporal Bone - Answers Inner portion of the EAM is supported by the tympanic part of the
__________ __________
Hair Follicles - Answers These are used to move cerumen out of the outer part of the EAM
Downward, Down - Answers In children, the EAM angles __________. To view the TM, the Pinna is
pulled _____ and back.
Upward, up - Answers In adults, the EAM angles __________. To view the TM, the Pinna is pulled
______ and back.
Physiology of the EAM - Answers Serves to maintain constant temperature.
Protect from trauma and foreign objects
Resonates in the 2-7 kHz frequency region
Three layers of the TM - Answers Outer --> epithelial
Middle --> fibrous
Inner --> Mucous
Manubrium - Answers You can see the _______ of the malleus attached to the TM through the
translucent shape.
True - Answers Epithelial cells should never be on the inside in the middle ear space, because they can
cause a tumor to start growing.
(T/F)
Microsia - Answers Outer Ear Disorders
Small size, Abnormally small Pinna
, Anotic or Agenesis - Answers Outer Ear Disorders
Absent Pinna, Failure to develop
Pinnaplasty or Otoplasty - Answers Outer Ear Disorder
Protruding or flat auricle can be corrected surgically with a procedure termed?
Atresia - Answers EAM Pathology
Absent EAM
Pre-Aurical Tags - Answers EAM Pathology
Small growth in front of auricle due to incomplete embryonic development
Stenosis - Answers EAM Pathology
Narrowing of the ear canal
Collapsing EAM - Answers EAM Pathology
Results from ear phone pressure on auricle, often seen in children and elderly.
Results in a high frequency air bone gap
Temporomandibular Joint Syndrom (TMJ) - Answers Disorder that occurs because of structures located
near the EAM. Condyle of the mandible hooks around and goes right below your ear canal, and is
located near the osseo-cartilaginous junction
EAM - Answers When the mandible is not aligned properly, the condyle impinges on the?
Otalgia - Answers Ear pain is called?
Symptoms of TMJ - Answers Myofacial Pain Disfunction (MPD)
Headache, crepitus, dizziness, back, neck, shoulder pain, and emotional distress
External Otitis - Answers Inflamation or infection of the EAM
"Swimmers ear"
Often thought to be due to a fungus
Otomycois - Answers The fungal infection of the EAM
Furunculosis - Answers An infection of hair follicles in the EAM
Kind of like a boil in your ear
Auricle/Pinna - Answers Serves to collect sound and direct it to the external auditory canal.
Enhance - Answers Pinna also serves to _____ sound in its resonant frequency region
2-7 kHz - Answers What is the Pinna's resonant frequency region?
External Auditory Meatus - Answers This is the canal that extends from the Pinna to the tympanic
membrane
Outer Walls - Answers The portion of the EAM that is lined with epithelial cells and made up of cartilage
Sebaceous Glands - Answers This produces and creates cerumen
Temporal Bone - Answers Inner portion of the EAM is supported by the tympanic part of the
__________ __________
Hair Follicles - Answers These are used to move cerumen out of the outer part of the EAM
Downward, Down - Answers In children, the EAM angles __________. To view the TM, the Pinna is
pulled _____ and back.
Upward, up - Answers In adults, the EAM angles __________. To view the TM, the Pinna is pulled
______ and back.
Physiology of the EAM - Answers Serves to maintain constant temperature.
Protect from trauma and foreign objects
Resonates in the 2-7 kHz frequency region
Three layers of the TM - Answers Outer --> epithelial
Middle --> fibrous
Inner --> Mucous
Manubrium - Answers You can see the _______ of the malleus attached to the TM through the
translucent shape.
True - Answers Epithelial cells should never be on the inside in the middle ear space, because they can
cause a tumor to start growing.
(T/F)
Microsia - Answers Outer Ear Disorders
Small size, Abnormally small Pinna
, Anotic or Agenesis - Answers Outer Ear Disorders
Absent Pinna, Failure to develop
Pinnaplasty or Otoplasty - Answers Outer Ear Disorder
Protruding or flat auricle can be corrected surgically with a procedure termed?
Atresia - Answers EAM Pathology
Absent EAM
Pre-Aurical Tags - Answers EAM Pathology
Small growth in front of auricle due to incomplete embryonic development
Stenosis - Answers EAM Pathology
Narrowing of the ear canal
Collapsing EAM - Answers EAM Pathology
Results from ear phone pressure on auricle, often seen in children and elderly.
Results in a high frequency air bone gap
Temporomandibular Joint Syndrom (TMJ) - Answers Disorder that occurs because of structures located
near the EAM. Condyle of the mandible hooks around and goes right below your ear canal, and is
located near the osseo-cartilaginous junction
EAM - Answers When the mandible is not aligned properly, the condyle impinges on the?
Otalgia - Answers Ear pain is called?
Symptoms of TMJ - Answers Myofacial Pain Disfunction (MPD)
Headache, crepitus, dizziness, back, neck, shoulder pain, and emotional distress
External Otitis - Answers Inflamation or infection of the EAM
"Swimmers ear"
Often thought to be due to a fungus
Otomycois - Answers The fungal infection of the EAM
Furunculosis - Answers An infection of hair follicles in the EAM
Kind of like a boil in your ear
