Within in the inner ear is a snail-shaped structure called the cochlea, which is filled with fluid and lined with cells called hair cells. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
The lower half of the cochlea is the tympanic canal. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The cochlea, which is a part of the auditory nerve, has the body's greatest concentration of zinc. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
(The cochlea is the structure in the ear where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.). From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Igf1 −/− cochlea, which is consistent with previous observations of aberrant synapsis at the inner hair cells. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Your cochlea is a spiral-shaped structure, like a snail's shell, that's filled with fluid and lined with tiny hairs known as cilia. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture] Reference
My cochlea, in a nutshell, (that is NOT a pun) is bald. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Krotz: On Deafness] Reference
The cells in question are the hair cells of the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Medpundit] Reference
Evolutionary origins of the mammalian promontorium and cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
The process of bypassing the cochlea is, apparently, permanent. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Cyborg Revisited] Reference
Sound hits the eardrum, enters the cochlea, and into the brain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2004] Reference
Much of the peculiar structure of the cochlea is not understood. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Snakes do, however, possess an inner ear with a functional cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Békésy (1961) physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000] Reference
The only truly successful neural prosthesis is the artificial cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Science Cult] Reference
Take the line “She glanced back up the cochlea-curve of the staircase”. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of a Story: The Amber Room « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference
Here, also, sound is collected and retained by the mastoid cells and cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829] Reference
The cochlea, or snail's shell, is another chamber hollowed out in the solid bone. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Any vertical section of the cochlea shows all three of these channels (Fig. 153). From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
To solve the problem of pitch perception, the cochlea must be considered in detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
It is the cochlea that contains the sense-receptors making it possible for us to hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Your ear helps moving the membrane in the cochlea, to find out if it's guesses were correct. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: iPods increase likelihood of musical hallucinations?] Reference
The cochlea is not a single coiled tube but, rather, is a triple one, all coiling in unison. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Here lies the cochlea, the organ that translates sound waves to nerve impulses for the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: "Eyeballs sound like creaking doors"] Reference
An interesting question, though, is how the cochlea enables us to distinguish differences in pitch. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Her research focuses on the physiology of hearing, particularly the transmission of signals in the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [2008 L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards] Reference
Photo Researchers Hair cells, magnified 21,000 times, line the inside of the shell-like cochlea of the inner ear. From Wordnik.com. [Can a Tiny Fish Save Your Ears?] Reference
These beautiful children have now received bilateral cochlea implants, and the beginning of living in a hearing world. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Naylor: Overcoming Powerlessness] Reference
Naveeid, there is an exciting preliminary research that indicates that hair cells in bird cochlea are able to regenerate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2008] Reference
It is clearly advantageous, then, to have the cochlea as long as possible; the human cochlea is one and a half inches long. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
From one side of this vestibule, or central hall, the three semicircular canals pass off, and from the other side, the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
It consists essentially of modified ephithelial cells floated upon the auditory epithelium, or basilar membrane, of the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
This is because when sound reaches the oval and round windows it can still excite the cochlea leading to the perception of sound. From Wordnik.com. [A Decade Spanning Single Exchange] Reference
That means weak neural signals that arrive in the cochlea from other locations are amplified and interpreted by the brain as sound. From Wordnik.com. [Tinnitus: the sound of silence] Reference
Finally, to complete this delicate apparatus, in the cochlea are minute tendrils, named the fibers of Corti, from their discoverer. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
You're getting sounds coming in and that's going on across the eardrum, using these sort of bones to create a sound in your cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2009] Reference
At their upper ends they communicate with each other by a small opening, making by this means one continuous canal through the cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
With bone forceps or a fine saw, split open the petrous portion of the temporal bone and observe the cochlea and the semicircular canals. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
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