cochlea
cochlea
Definition
coch·lea (käk′lē ə, kōk′lē ə)
cochlea
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- enter: As the vibrations from the bones in the middle ear enter the cochlea, they cause the fluid to move.
- call: The inner ear consists of an organ called the cochlea, which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- contain: The inner ear, which contains the cochlea - the hearing organ - and the vestibular organs - the organs of balance.
Adjective modifier
- fluid-filled: The BM converts pressure fluctuations in the fluid-filled cochlea to a displacement response.
- healthy: It works on the principle that a healthy cochlea will produce a faint echo when stimulated with sound.
Modifies a noun
- implant: Hearing aids and cochlea implants bring sound to the hard of hearing.
- simulation: The envelope is calculated continuously, by lowpass filtering the individual channels of the NAP as they flow from the cochlea simulation.
- cell: Here the needle is very close to the cochlea hair cells and is recording the electrical activity directly from these hair cells.
Preposition: in
- ear: The speech vibrations travel by conduction through the bone to the cochlea in the inner ear.
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