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cochlea

[ US /ˈkɑkɫiə/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒkliːɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti

How To Use cochlea In A Sentence

  • Some two-long alkyl chain amphiphiles can adopt stable tubular structures including twist ribbons, helices, and cochleate cylinders in aqueous media.
  • In mammals, the lagena is coiled and is referred to as the cochlea.
  • He is profoundly deaf and uses hearing aids until he can have a cochlea implant later this year.
  • So if you imagine the cochlear being wound, it's sort of shell-like, it's not a straight system but what you've got to do is insert it as you might indeed a twisted shell like a snail and the further it goes in presumably the better the sound.
  • The utriculus opens broadly into the scala tympani, and the nervous elements of the cochlea are degenerate. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
  • Moreover, tinnitus is often found in people with severe sensorineural hearing loss or following physical damage to the inner ear, which would argue against a cochlear origin for the condition.
  • Medical devices such as cardiac pacemakers, cochlear implants, and bone growth stimulators are valuable tools in the treatment of patients with multiple medical needs.
  • The lateral lemniscus (lateral fillet), the continuation upward of the central path of hearing, consists of fibers which come from the cochlear nuclei of the same and the opposite side by way of the trapezoid body and from the preolivary nuclei. IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves
  • The function of the speech processor lies in dealing with speech signal and producing the pulse which electrodes need to stimulate cochlea.
  • I'm prone to ear infections of the supa-special nasty kind, and they often come hand-in-hand (or cochlea in septum, or whatever) with sinus infections. October 26th, 2005
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