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Originally Posted by Cheetah
Bad hair cut Jiro? 
Actually you would need an electron microscope to see the hair cells in the Cochlea. Not exactly practical. There is a lot of debate about why the hair cells stop functioning. Seems a lot depends on the balance of fluids in the cochlea, perhaps genetics, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps... We know so much but understand so little. |
That small? Interesting. It was always my understanding that the ear contains only a certain number of hair cells, about 40,000 of them or so, and that they are irreplaceable. That is why people lose their hearing around loud noises: the hair cells are destroyed one by one until you cannot hear anything.