How to Use cochlea in a Sentence

cochlea

noun
Definition of cochleanext
  • Both of your cochlea would fit on the face of a dime with room to spare.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Then, sound travels into the bony labyrinth of the ear and to the cochlea.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The action sends pressure waves through the liquid in the cochlea, the snail shell of the inner ear.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • If your cochlea were the same relative size as a bat’s, each would be about the size of a golf ball.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The primary structure of hearing in the skull is called a cochlea.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Sound sets off a wave of fluid in the cochlea and stimulates the hair cells to transmit signals to the brain.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • All vertebrates have a tube-like canal called the cochlea deep in their inner ear.
    — Discover Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • Here, there’s an important bit of anatomy called the cochlea.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
  • One of Sarpeshkar’s first chips was an early analog of the cochlea, which processes sound in the inner ear.
    — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
  • If the cochlea were a snail’s shell, the vestibular organs—the saccule, the utricle, and three semicircular canals—would make up the snail’s body.
    — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
  • This structure, called the cochlea, contains little hairy cells that vibrate when sounds pass through.
    — Maggie Chen, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
  • That’s because CIs today come with only around 20 electrodes, and each connects to a single nerve cell in the cochlea.
    — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The braincase also revealed the shortest ever cochlea found in a dinosaur.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Loud noises cause intense vibrations that can affect the cochlea in the inner ear.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The cochlea is part of the inner ear where hearing takes place, and its size can determine hearing ability.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • These sunglasses include a nub at the end of the arms that touch the back of your ear and send sound-carrying vibrations right past your eardrum and to your cochlea (inner ear).
    — Cameron Martindell, WIRED, 13 June 2019
  • The cochlea also generates new vibrations that can cause faint sound to come back out of the ear, known as otoacoustic emissions.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the vibrations passed through the wood, through his jaw, through his temporal bone, and into his cochlea, bypassing his eardrum and middle ear.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Seven of these genes shape the development of hair cells in the inner ear’s cochlea, which helps convert sound waves into nerve signals.
    — Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2014
  • Within the cochlea, hair cells rest on an organic platform known as the basilar membrane that is floppy and wide on one end and narrow and taut on the other.
    — Justin Chen, STAT, 11 July 2018
  • These bones then transmit the sound vibrations to the cochlea, which stimulates nerve axons that send the auditory signal to the brain.
    — Neel Bhatt, CNN, 15 June 2021
  • This in turn leads to defective tissue of particular importance in the function of the eyes, cochlea, and kidneys.
    — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Most cases of tinnitus are due to hearing loss caused by damage to the cells responsible for hearing in the cochlea, the organ of hearing in the inner ear.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The middle ear bones push on the fluid inside a structure called the cochlea, and that fluid moving then drives the vibration of sensory cells called outer hair cells.
    — Dallas News, 21 July 2021
  • Inside the cochlea are hair cells, each sprouting microscopic bristles that vibrate in response to sound waves.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Montealegre-Z’s team is now trying to pin down how the receptors in the insect version of the cochlea pick out different frequencies.
    — Stephanie Pain, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The team created 3-D models of these ear structures and ran the measurements through a software model to calculate the way sound energy moves into the ear canal and winds its way toward the cochlea.
    — Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The cochlea, or inner ear, converts the mechanical energy of sound into electrical signals to the brain.
    — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2012
  • Studded with sensitive microphones, they are supposed to pick up audio and relay it via a wire threaded deep inside her inner ear to the neurons in her cochlea.
    — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • Another part of the inner ear, a thin, bony structure within the cochlea, provided further evidence of the ability.
    — Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2016

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