This contains the tectorial membrane, which runs across hair cells numbering nearly 25,000 and lining most of the basilar membrane.
This contains the tectorial membrane, which runs across hair cells numbering nearly 25,000 and lining most of the basilar membrane. After the stapes acts on the oval window, a traveling pressure wave here results in a shearing force that affects the organ of Corti; consequently sound is transduced. This structure is named from the Latin for "snail shell" due to its shape. For ten points, name this structure of the inner ear that converts sound into neural impulses.
This contains the tectorial membrane, which runs across hair cells numbering nearly 25,000 and lining most of the basilar membrane.
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