कोक्लीअ (en. Cochlea)

The operation may not cure tinnitus and will not improve hearing in the small number of cases which affect the cochlea.

This means that the special hair cells in the cochlea also vibrate at varying speeds.

This involves placing a soft-tipped probe into the baby's ears, playing sounds and trying to detect a response - 'echo' - from the baby's cochlea.

In addition, the method of electric stimulation of the auditory nerve by means of implantation of a special electrode into the cochlea is becoming more widespread.

Cochlea has thousands of hair-like structures called as stereocilia.

Damage to the cochlea and other structures in the inner ear.

In each ear, the inner ear structure called the cochlea - which receives sound in the form of vibrations - has 15,000 hairs.