Cochlea WisdomCard™

Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Cochlea and compiled helpful research notes below.

  1. Hearing Loss Association of America: Cochlea Information nchearingloss.org - Cochlea Information
  2. Wikipedia: Cochlea Overview en.wikipedia.org - Cochlea Overview
  3. Cochlear Fluids Research Laboratory: Cochlear Anatomy oto2.wustl.edu - Cochlear Anatomy
  4. KidsHealth: Cochlea Definition kidshealth.org - Cochlea Definition
  5. About.com: What Are Cochlear Implants? video.about.com - What Are Cochlear Implants?
  6. ScienceDaily: New Math Model Finds That The Cochlea's Spiral Shape Enhances Low Frequencies (May 11, 2006)sciencedaily.com - New Math Model Finds That The Cochlea's Spiral Shape Enhances Low Frequencies
  7. Cell Transplantation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair (via EurekAlert): Hearing Restoration May be Possible With Cochlear Repair After Transplant Of Human Cord Blood Cells (Sept. 03, 2008)eurekalert.org - Hearing Restoration May be Possible With Cochlear Repair After Transplant Of Human Cord Blood Cells
  8. ClinicalTrials.gov: Cochlea Clinical Trials clinicaltrials.gov - Cochlea Clinical Trials
  9. Google Scholar: Recent Articles About The Cochlea scholar.google.com - Recent Articles About The Cochlea
  10. JAMA: Cochlea Medical Journal Articles jama.ama-assn.org - Cochlea Medical Journal Articles


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Research Notes on Cochlea


The inner ears auditory system is the cochlea. The cochlea is filled with fluid, vibrations cause tiny hairs to move within the fluid. The hairs then translate sound into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain.1

Fast Facts:

  • From the Latin word for snail, which is from the Greek word kokhlias "snail, screw," from kokhlos "spiral shell".2
  • Cochlea is a spiraled, hollow, conical chamber of bone.2
  • Only mammals have the coiled cochlea.2

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Research Notes References

  1. ↑ Hearing Loss Association of America: Cochlea Information
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wikipedia: Cochlea Overview

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