Swallowing during airplane takeoffs and landings allows air to move through the Eustachian tube to equalize pressure across the eardrum, causing the ears to “pop.”
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The Eustachian tube connects from the chamber of the middle ear to the back of the pharynx.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The middle ear contains the ossicles and is connected to the pharynx by the Eustachian tube.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Following one of these infections, the Eustachian tube becomes inflamed and blocked.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2010
The sound of the muscle twitch is carried along the Eustachian tube, as along a speaking tube, and is heard as a clocklike tick outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Incidentally, another piece of tubing in the body, the Eustachian tube linking the middle ear to the pharynx, was also described around this time, by Bartolomeo Eustachio.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
A meager description of his methods of " finger surgery " was given, whereby he claims to " reconstruct" the eustachian tube by manipulation through the mouth while the patient is under anaesthesia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Difficulty of hearing, probably due to an extension of catarrhal inflammation from the throat into the eustachian tube.
From Time Magazine Archive
On its upper part and on the side near the nose cavity is the opening of the eustachian tube.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
Causes.—Acute coryza, acute pharyngitis, influenza, scarlet fever, inflammation of the eustachian tube, gargling, bathing, employing the nasal douche or violently blowing the nose.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
So you can readily understand how easy it is for an inflammation of the throat to extend to the middle ear through the eustachian tube.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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