Talk:Round window

Merge proposal for Secondary tympanic membrane

CFCF suggested] that Secondary tympanic membrane get merged into this article. While the content of that article is redundant and seems easy to merge I don't see how to easily merge the anatomical terminology infobox with the existing, and very large, infobox that is on this article.

In the same edit that proposes the merge a hat notice was added that the article is missing information about Rupture during scubadiving. It's my understanding that the tympanic membrane (eardrum) is the part getting damaged, not the secondary tympanic membrane. FWIW, perforated eardrum has its own article though does not mention SCUBA diving as one of the causes for this injury. A scan of the Google results for site:www.diversalertnetwork.org "tympanic membrane" supports that it's the tympanic membrane (eardrum) that gets perforated and that SCUBA diving is a cause. I suspect the perforated eardrum article is the best place to add that information. I'm not a SCUBA diver and so don't know if perforated eardrums are a common enough issue that it needs to be added to Wikipedia.

I would like to remove both hat notices from the Secondary tympanic membrane article. --Marc Kupper|talk 03:02, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

I'd support a merge to this article, as secondary tympanic membrane is just a sobriquet referring to the membrane covering the round window. With respect to the infobox, we have merged articles before and I think we should ask what benefits readers most. In this case, as you point out, it would be having them both on one article (round window and second membrane) as that will significantly reduce confusion. --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

We have other articles that aggregate several TA entries, so this is a non-issue. As for the rupture I am referring to one specifically of the secondary membrane. Such rupture causes loss of vestibular sensation and very severe nausea and impaired sense of direction, whereas rupture of the tympanic membrane does not cause these symptoms (at least not to nearly the same extent). I've tried finding the studies behind this and they're proving elusive - they could potentially be old army studies. Feel free to remove the tag, but I want to state it here so that it can be elucidated upon in the future. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 18:15, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Turns out I was searching for the wrong thing: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22round+window%22+barotrauma - There is a bit of literature out there, I don't know if I have time to go through it right now. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 18:26, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

I would support the merge of these two articles as well. I believe it is more commonly referred to as the round window. 139.222.255.116 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:42, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

 Done Klbrain (talk) 21:48, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

"Macerated"

In the main article this sentence appears: "It is placed at the bottom of a funnel-shaped depression (the round window niche) and, in the macerated bone, opens into the cochlea of the internal ear;" Even though a link is provided to the Maceration (food) page (which seems like that itself may be errant, and Maceration (bone) may be the intended link), I'm struggling to make sense of what that sentence is trying to say. While I've never dissected a head, I have done well in anatomy and physiology courses, as well as prosected a human cadaver, and so I think it stands to reason that if I'm struggling to follow that sentence, that it may do well to be reworded. Problem is, I don't want to take any meaning away from it by editing out that link to "maceration" if it's somehow important. PolymathGirl (talk) 04:42, 28 March 2018 (UTC)