Why do loud sounds damage the ears?

Answer 1

The ear has three main parts: the outer, middle, and inner ear. The outer ear (the part you can see) opens into the ear canal. The eardrum separates the ear canal from the middle ear, Small bones in the middle ear help transfer sound to the inner ear. The inner ear contains the auditory (hearing) nerve, which leads to the brain.

Any source of sound sends vibrations or sound waves into the air. These funnel through the ear opening, down the ear canal, and strike your eardrum, causing it to vibrate. The vibrations are passed to the small bones of the middle ear, which transmit them to the hearing nerve in the inner ear. There, the vibrations become nerve impulses and go directly to the brain, which interprets the impulses as sound: music, a slamming door, a voice, etc.

When noise is too loud, it begins to kill the nerve's endings in the inner car. As the exposure time to loud noise increases, more and more nerve endings are destroyed, As the number of nerve endings decreases, so does your hearing. There is no way to restore life to dead nerve endings; the damage is permanent.

Answer 2

You are able to hear because sound waves vibrate the air and in turn vibrate the ear-drum. There are a lot of very small bones and membranes in your ear that are pretty delicate.

The ear-drum converts the sounds into a signal that your brain understands and thus you get 'sound'

The louder the sound, the more violent the vibration.

If the sound were loud enough, your ear-drum could break or burst causing a lot of pain and hurting your ability to distinguish differing sounds.

Even if the sound wasn't loud 'in one hit', continued exposure to overloud sounds can damage the delicate parts of your ear.

Answer 3

The little hairs in your inner ear get knocked down by loud noise, these help to define sound (filter), if they are permanently damaged you can suffer from hearing loss.

Answer 4

There are fine hairs in our ears and sounds bend these when passing. Too much exposure causes the hairs to stay down and that is when there is damage. Sorry I dont know the medical terms

Answer 5

You recieve sounds in your ear by your ear drum vibrating. This ear drum is a very fine membrane which is almost transparent. The louder the noise, the more this membrane stretches to take in the noise. If the noise gets louder and louder the mors it has to stretch, until it can't stretch any more and ruptures. You are then deaf in that ear.

Answer 6

I think it has quite a bit to do with vibrating the bones in your ear that are used to convert sound waves to electircal signals for the brain. The three bones (hammer, anvil stirrup) are extremely sensitive, and over stimulation (loud sounds or high frequency sound waves) cause them to vibrate too rapidly or much, causing pain.

Answer 7

Assuming it was loud enough to cause damage (that is well over 100 dB), it will cause damage. It may not be as much damage as prolonged exposure, but you will experience some minor damage.

Answer 8

We are not designed to endure loud sounds.

There is nothing in nature as loud as the many artificial things we have come up with.

Answer 9

The Sound Energy can be measured by the unit of Decibel.Which is part of watts.There is a decibel scales.=-120 db is ok.But over that range it demages the human ear.

Answer 10

because sound is vibrations in the air, the louder the sound the greater the vibration. because the ear drum can only move a small amount too greater sound/vibration could stretch or even tear it.