Possible Sites of Lesion
Neuron: Hair cell | |
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Three rows of Outer Hair Cells in the Organ of Corti, one row of Inner Hair Cells. |
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Gray's | subject #232 1057 |
Based on clinical testing of subjects with auditory neuropathy, the disruption in the stream of sound information has been localized to one or more of three probable locations: the inner hair cells of the cochlea, the synapse between the inner hair cells and the auditory nerve, or a lesion of the ascending auditory nerve itself.
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