Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's 12 days of Christmas.

We are on day three, which means Matthew?

On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me.

Three middle earbones.

Two carotid arteries.

And a spleen in a healthy body.

Wow.

Now I know why you were part of the 12 tenors.

You're part of that crew, weren't you?

Anyway.

So, today,

third day of Christmas,

three middle earbones.

I love Christmas songs.

You can probably tell,

sleigh bells ringing a tingling,

and oh yeah.

Do you like that song?

No. Oh, why not? It brings on my tinnitus. Really? It gives you a bit of sleigh bells ringing, tinkling and in your ear. That's correct. So, what's going on? Not a great time of the year for me. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, that's sad. Luckily, nobody cares.

But tell us a little bit about your ears, Matthew.

Well, let's, let's, today's, today's, today's topic are the three middle ear bones, also known as the ossicles. Oscicles. Auditory ossicles? Oscicles. If something oscillates, it means it moves. Yeah, ossicles means little bones. Really? Okay. Like ossify. You got a new nickname for you. Osify. Osify. So the ossicles are the tiny bones. Now they are the smallest bones in the body. Did you know that? I'm sure you did. I did. I did. So they are located in your middle ear. Yep. There's three ears on each side. Oh, three bones in each ear. Yeah. Yep. And we have three ears. It's got nine bones. And so there's going to be three on each side.

So they're going to be the smallest and they function as, I guess you'd say, to transmit

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