Acoustic trauma of this sort can rupture the delicate eardrum, and hearing experts at several hospitals in Boston said on Wednesday that torn eardrums accounted for most of the hearing loss they have seen among those near the explosions.
Although it is remarkably well-documented in the fossil record, the evolution of the mammalian jaw still poses the paradox of how the bones of the ancestral jaw joint could function both as a joint hinge for powerful load-bearing mastication and as a mandibular middle ear that was delicate enough for hearing.
The "infinitely delicate melody" she heard was, she says, "the voice of the poets, their brotherly attempt to console me in my distress".
When religious conservatives -- or those with otherwise delicate sensibilities -- hear the word "f**k" uttered in a movie, what happens?
Visit anytime in the next year and you'll hear delicate, clanging, and unseen water rising from below like an invisible stream.
Database URL: https://shield.hms.harvard.edu The inner ear is a delicate organ essential for hearing and balance.
The new arrangements are quieter and more delicate, the better to hear his soaring, ghostly and crackling voice.
We heard a delicate sound — like an old-fashioned alarm clock in a nineteen-thirties movie — tinkling distantly in the building's sleep.
It's a small and glancing, but also deeply felt, attempt to suggest that this music, with its objectivity and empathy, its breathless energy and delicate grace, could, if heard closely by enough people, change the world.
