It contains the tectorial membrane, which runs across hair cells numbering nearly 25,000 and lining most of the basilar membrane.
It 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, the traveling wave results in a shearing force affecting the organ of Corti and consequently transduction of sound. Coming from the Latin for "seashell" due to its shape—for 10 points—name this structure of the inner ear that converts sound pressure into neural impulses.
It contains the tectorial membrane, which runs across hair cells numbering nearly 25,000 and lining most of the basilar membrane.
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