Ear
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Overview
Outer ear
Middle ear
Hearing and equilibrium
Corpus geniculatum mediale
Colliculus inferior
N cochlearis
Fig. 718
Hearing.
Primary nuclei: purple; remaining nuclei:
brown.
The chain of the auditory ossicles amplifies
the amplitude of the sound waves physically.
Nucleus lemnisci lateralis
Nuclei cochleares
Nuclei olivares
Nucleus corporis trapezoidei
Nuelei nervi oculomotorii
Nucléus nervi trochlearis
Fasciculus longitudinalis
medialis
Nucléus nervi abducentis
Nuclei vestibuläres
Nucleus gracilis
Nucleus cuneatus
(Nucleus centralis
columnae posterions)
(Nuclei cornus anterioris
musculorum colli)
Cerebellum
Fig. 719
Control of equilibrium and
stabilisation of the visual field.
Afferent fibres originate in the muscles of
the eye, the equilibrium organ and the
muscles of the neck; efferent fibres
modulate the muscles of the eye and the
body. The cerebellum plays a predominant
role in this coordination.
