RT Book, Section
A1 Gluth, Michael B.
A1 Driscoll, Colin L. W.
A1 Lalwani, Anil K.
A2 Lalwani, Anil K.
SR Print(0)
ID 55773276
T1 Chapter 68. Cochlear Implants
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, 3e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162439-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55773276
RD 2024/04/24
AB An  absence  or  disturbance  of  cochlear  hair  cells  causes  most  cases  of  deafness.  This  defect  in  normal  cochlear  function,  specifically,  in  the  transduction  of  a  mechanical  acoustic  signal  into  auditory  nerve  synaptic  activity,  represents  a  broken  link  in  the  delicate  chain  that  constitutes  the  human  sense  of  hearing.  Cochlear  implants  afford  an  artificial  means  to  bypass  this  disrupted  link  via  direct  electric  stimulation  of  auditory  nerve  fibers.