I dunno how I feel about this. Been at my computer too long; will circle back after meditating on it
The purpose of the oval window is to {{c1::transmit vibrations into the cochlea, causing fluid movement}} makes fluid movement sound secondary to transmitting vibrations imo rather than transmit vibrations to the cochlea through/via moving the fluid.
Yeah, agreed. I donāt love the phrasing. Itās not awful awful, and the original isnāt exactly art work.
Iām inclined to retain the original rather than push this one. If itās 50/50 the onus lies with not changing things on a coin toss. This one isnāt without some good intention but itās not making me see stars either
The purpose of the oval window is to {{c1::transmit vibrations from the middle ear by pushing fluid through the cochlea}}?
Somehow āpushing fluidā still sounds weird to my ears, but maybe thatās the name of the game. UWorld doesnāt mention it at all, and Kaplan IIRC has some other phrasing that doesnāt really capture this well
Itās better than what we have, at least
The purpose of the oval window is to transmit vibrations from the middle ear, generating pressure waves in the fluid of the cochlea?
I read this completely out of context and was like "what is he talking about rn?
Man, thereās gotta be some formal phrasing for this somewhere. Like, we are not the first humans to have tackled the oddness of this phrase
Kaplan just says itās the āentrance to the inner ear.ā I havenāt checked KA yet
āDisplaceā. Displace is the word we want. So much less gross
āThe purpose of the oval window is to transmit vibrations to the inner ear by displacing fluid in the cochlea.ā
Itās not amazing, but weāre constrained by the existing sentence framing
Agree. I actually had that exact sentence as an option than I submitted another post under it and it literally disappeared. maybe I was editing that one unknowingly and it was just deleted Idk. But that sounds good to me.
Submitted a testpiece suggestion for us to look over whenever