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What is the point of the Rhine test?
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Bone conduction – is deafness neural or inner ear blockage?
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How many inner vs outer hair cells?
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3,500 vs 12,000
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What is the site of sensory transduction for hearing?
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Organ of Corti
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What do most afferent nerves take signals from?
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Inner hair cells
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What changes length to augment basilar membrane motion?
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Outer hair cells
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What are the properties of afferent nerves?
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1 – have phasic and tonic activity
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What depolarizes a hair cell?
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Deflection upwards to the tallest cilia
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Neural pathway of hearing
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8th cranial nerve
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