Do earlobes have a purpose?

Answer 1

Around the world and throughout human history, the earlobe is the most common location for a body piercing. Tearing of the earlobe from the weight of very heavy earrings, or traumatic pull of an earring, is fairly common. The repair of such a tear is usually not difficult. Some cultures practice earlobe stretching, using piercing ornaments to stretch and enlarge the earlobes. Piercing the earlobe poses a much lower risk of infection than piercing other parts of the ear. Initial healing time for an earlobe piercing is typically 6-8 weeks. After that time, earrings can be changed, but if the hole is left unfilled for an extended period of time, there is some danger of the piercing closing. After healing, earlobe piercings will shrink to smaller gauges in the prolonged absence of earrings, but may never completely disappear.

Answer 2

EVERY part of our body has a BIG purpose. Now that you asked the earlobes, it sure does have a purpose, what is it?...

Think about why radars are shaped how they are shaped. Now, you know that radars are shaped to catch and reflect sound and other electromagnetic transmissions. This is how radars come to invention. Now our human ear is just like that. Why do elephants have a large ears?. Because they have a long range hearing. They can a little sound such as a whisper from hundreds of miles away.

Notice how animals are learned and built a technology that mimic them. Submarines are the mimic of the dolphin, the birds the airplane, etc

Answer 3

Earlobes have a large blood supply and may help to warm the ears, but generally earlobes are not considered to have any biological function.

(Earlobes are normally smooth, but occasionally exhibit creases. Creased earlobes are associated with genetic disorders, including Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Earlobe creases are also associated with an increased risk of heart attack and coronary heart disease; however, since earlobes become more creased with age and older people are more likely to experience heart disease than younger people, this may account for the findings linking heart attack to earlobe creases.

The earlobe contains many nerve endings and consequently is an erogenous zone.)

Answer 4

They are part of the head's cooling system. Earlobes have a very rich blood supply, mainly capillaries. To lose heat, the blood supply increases to the ears, allowing an increased supply of cooled blood back into the head, and brain.
Try it. Next time you know someone with a fever, have a look at their ears and earlobes, they will be bright red.

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Answer 5

Nothing is useless in this world. The great creater has done it precisely.
If you look carefully the ear appears like a fetus and truely possesses all points which control whole body organs. If points on body doesn't respond to treatment in acupuncture we treat ear. The earlobe possesses point for eye, tongue, upper and lower jaw, internal ear and hypotension.

Answer 6

How about this, as people age, their hearing becomes less funtional. Also hairs on the lobe are at their longest.

The hairs would aid in sensing something near the ear that can't be detected auditorily.

Answer 7

Not really, but having NO earlobes now would look odd.

Answer 8

Yes, they act as a small parabolic to capture the sound waves and direct them into to external ear canal.

Answer 9

Yes , they are used to direct the sound waves which pass our ears into it

Answer 10

YES EAR LOBES DO HAVE A FUNCTION.IT'S TO DIRECT THE SOUND INTO OUR AUDITORY CANAL IE IT HELPS IN HEARING WHERE IT IS THE ONLY ORGAN WHICH DIRECT SOUND TO THE AUDITORY CANAL.