n. The small membrane lying between the middle ear and the inner ear. The oval window is connected both to the auditory ossicles of the middle ear and to the cochlea of the inner ear; vibration of the ossicles is transmitted across the oval window to...

The oval window (or vestibular window) is a membrane-covered opening which leads from the middle ear to the vestibule of the inner ear. Vibrations arriving at the eardrum are transmitted via the interacting ossicles from the middle ear through the...