The eardrum is essentially the main element for sensing sounds in your entire ear. All of the other components of your ear only work to pass the information along that have already been compiled at the eardrum. As complex as the hearing process is, this is only a portion of it and there is a lot more that goes into allowing us to hear the sounds in the environment on a regular basis.
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