Life Span on Humans. Immediately after lice eggs hatch, the nymphs need food. Using their claws to crawl from the hair shafts to the scalp, young adult and mature lice feed on the hostâs blood multiple times throughout the day.
Confidence votes 7.6K. The Latin word for ear is auris (-is, f.). The diminutive, spelled either auricula or oricula, is used to refer to the external, visible part of the ear (it is the latter that gave rise to the modern Romance words for ear: Italian orecchio, Spanish oreja, French oreille, etc.).
The bony chamber of the inner ear is shaped like a small snail shell, from which it gets its Latin name cochlea (Figure 4). The function of the cochlea is to take the mechanical vibrations from the ossicles (and ultimately the eardrum) and convert them into electrical signals understandable to the brain.