The Cochlea can be damaged by a cholesteatoma(see above).
INNER EAR: the Cochlea, semi-circular canals, and auricular nerve.
Cochlea has thousands of hair-like structures called as stereocilia.
The other half is the Cochlea which controls hearing.
The Cochlea is shaped like a small snail shell or a wound-up tube.
This means that the special hair cells in the Cochlea also vibrate at varying speeds.
If otospongiosis reaches the Cochlea, it can also cause sensorineural hearing
loss by destroying nerve function.
This vibration is transmitted to
the inner ear through several small bones, where it reaches the Cochlea.
As a result, the small hairs in the Cochlea do not form properly
or do not function properly.
This vibration is transmitted to
the inner ear through several small bones, where it then reaches the Cochlea.
However, the reason why this occurs mainly in the stapes(and sometimes the Cochlea) is not entirely clear.
Both the Cochlea and the vestibular system are connected to a nerve
which carries electrical signals to the brain.
The Cochlea is a
portion of the inner ear that looks like a snail shell(Cochlea is Greek for snail.).
It is due to a problem of the Cochlea- a snail-shaped chamber filled with fluid, in the inner ear.
However, sometimes, over time,
otosclerosis can also affect the bony shell of the Cochlea and the nerve cells within it.
It can detect auditory neuropathy in children who are deaf,
but who have normal otoacoustic emissions(as their Cochlea is normal).
In each ear, the inner ear structure called the Cochlea- which receives sound in the form of vibrations-
has 15,000 hairs.
The operation may not cure tinnitus and
will not improve hearing in the small number of cases which affect the Cochlea.
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.
It can therefore detect the rare condition of auditory neuropathy, in children who are deaf but
have normal otoacoustic emissions(because the Cochlea is normal).
Nevertheless, for perilymph fluid to move easily in the Cochlea from one side of the divider wall to the other,
the wall has a tiny hole in it(the helicotrema).
However, in order for the fluid to move freely in the Cochlea from one side of the partition wall to the other,
the wall has a little hole in it(the helicotrema).
Usually this means that hair cells in the Cochlea are not working properly or there is
a problem with the hearing nerve so that some or all sounds are not being sent to the brain.