Crystal balls for hearing
Top left (h), a normal ear cavity houses two crystals below the ear's semicircular canals.
Center (i–m), the cavity grows malformed around abnormal crystals, which are misshapen or located in the wrong place. Bottom left (n), close-up of a normal ear crystal. Bottom right (o–p), the crystals grown in irregular shapes or fuse together.
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