Word: cochleae
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...pronounced Bay-keh-shee) was born in Hungary, and was still there in the 1920s, when he did the fundamental research now belatedly recognized. As a telephone engineer, he concentrated on the human ear and in particular the cochlea, the "snail shell" of the inner ear. For research he built models, bored through the temporal bone of a corpse so that he could observe with strobe lighting the effect of sound waves on the cochlea, which is linked to the eardrum by three small, movable bones of the middle ear. What he saw was that the cochlea reacts...
...treatment. After he left Budapest, Von Bėkėsy spent two years at Stockholm's Caroline Institute, which awarded the prize. Then he moved to the U.S., now works in Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory where, still experimenting, he has built a model of the cochlea big enough to hold...
...official statement of the Royal Caroline Medico-Chirurgical Institute (which awards the prize), the Harvard researcher was praised for "experimental skill...of an extremely high order." Specifically, the statement cited von Bekesy's "discoveries concerning the physical mechanisms of stimulation within the cochlea," which is a part of the inner...
...study the processes which change sound waves into electrical impulses, he built a model of the cochlea which was able to exercise selectivity in sound waves. He then tested his work by electrically stimulating the cochlea of a corpse. Gluing tiny mirrors to the eardrum and measuring its response to impulses, von Bekesy was able to measure the travelling wave as it swept past the membrane...
...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...