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19 декабря 2017 г., 07:33
But protected as it is from gross injuries, the organ of Corti, with its delicate hair cells, is highly vulnerable in other ways— vulnerable, as a start, to loud noise (each ambulance siren or garbage truck will destroy a few hair cells, to say nothing of airplanes, rock concerts, blaring iPods, and the like). The hair cells are vulnerable, too, to the effects of age and hereditary cochlear deafness— and once the hair cells are destroyed, it has long been thought, they are lost forever.
