HAIR CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hair cell mean? 

• HAIR CELL (noun)
  The noun HAIR CELL has 1 sense:

1. a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti

  Familiarity information: HAIR CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIR CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hair cell" is a kind of...):

epithelial cell (one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium)

Holonyms ("hair cell" is a part of...):

organ of Corti (the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves)

 Context examples 

Each cell surrounds an inner hair cell.

(Inner Supporting Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Inner hair cells survived and appeared to be relatively undamaged.

(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)

The sensory cells that detect these sounds are called hair cells, named for the hair-like strands that cluster on their tops.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

It vibrates in response to sound, exciting the hair cells and supports the organ of Corti.

(Basilar Membrane of the Membranous Canal of the Cochlea, NCI Thesaurus)

A motile cilium-like structure found in hair cells of the sensory epithelium of the inner ear.

(Kinocilium, NCI Thesaurus)

The structure is such that the supporting cell touches the outer hair cell only at the top and bottom.

(Outer Supporting Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

In the cochlea, this agent may prevent drug-induced injury to the auditory hair cells thereby preventing hearing loss.

(Ebselen-containing Oral Capsule SPI-1005, NCI Thesaurus)

The cochlear nerve fibers originate from neurons of the SPIRAL GANGLION and project peripherally to cochlear hair cells and centrally to the cochlear nuclei (COCHLEAR NUCLEUS) of the BRAIN STEM.

(Cochlear Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

These results suggest that during embryonic development, high levels of Bmp7 at one end of the basilar papilla signal the formation of low-frequency-sensing hair cells.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

They found that FOXO3 is needed for outer hair cell survival after loud noise.

(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)