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cochleaPart of the inner ear. It is equipped with approximately 10,000 hair cells, which move in response to sound waves and thus stimulate nerve cells to send messages to the brain. In this way they turn vibrations of the air into electrical signals. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Other tests for assessing speech understanding in noise, for fitting hearing aids, and for evaluating cochlear implant patients are the hearing-in-noise test, (1) the speech-perception-in-noise test, (2) and the sentence-recognition score. The picture of the new cochlear implant ("Hearing implant knows where it goes,' SN: 1/14/06, p. A milestone in the battle against childhood deafness occurred 25 years ago last month with the first pediatric cochlear implant, a device that helps children who cannot benefit from hearing aids to regain some hearing. |
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