Hair Cells

The fact that these hair-cells are connected with the fibers of the cochlear division of the auditory nerve suggests that they must play an important part in auditory sensation. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

It is thus seen that vibrations communicated to the chain of bones from the tympanic membrane are passed on to the fluid filling the passages (scalæ) of the cochlea, and thus affect the hair-cells, and so the nerve of hearing, and through it the brain. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

The most important part of the inner ear is 13, the cochlear canal, in which the "hair-cells" are found, around which latter the final branches of the auditory nerve end. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

When we ourselves hear sounds when under water, we are affected directly by the vibrations of that water; in this case we, in our whole body, represent the hair-cells which are stimulated by the fluid ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

The outer ear collects the vibrations, the middle ear conducts them, and the internal converts them into a special physiological condition of the hair-cells and the auditory nerve. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

Hearing is finally a psychological or mental condition, a state of consciousness, but is always associated with certain physiological processes, which are initiated by a physical stimulus in the form of waves in a fluid surrounding the hair-cells of the auditory end-organ; which waves may again be traced to the movements of the bones of the middle ear, caused by the swinging to and fro of the drum-head, owing to vibrations of the air produced by a sounding body. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

(which are not concerned with hearing, but with the maintenance of equilibrium); the cochlea, (snail-shell), which contains the various parts most essential to hearing, as the "hair-cells," the terminals of the auditory nerve, the latter nerve itself, and several other parts -- are well shown. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

_cochlea_, which contains a central canal in which that collection of cells is found which constitutes the _end-organ_, among them the hair-cells, about which the nerve ends. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

_hair-cells_, about which the nerves in their final smallest branches wrap themselves. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)