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Read (or skimmed) the article and I'm not an English native speaker but... TIL that "hair" can be used also for hearing related things? I thought that hair was
by darkwater 4y ago
Read (or skimmed) the article and I'm not an English native speaker but... TIL that "hair" can be used also for hearing related things? I thought that hair was just "any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals."
- dsr_ 4y agoThe tiny sensors inside your ear are nerves attached to hair of various lengths. It's specialized, but it's recognizably the same thing as the kind on the outside of your body.
- HPsquared 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_cell "Hair cells are the sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibular system in the ears of all vertebrates, and in the lateral line organ of fishes. Through mechanotransduction, hair cells detect movement in their environment.[1]"
- a2tech 4y agoWe have ultra fine hairs in our ears that wiggle when sound waves travel over them and those hairs bases are connected to receptors that capture those wiggles and send it to your brain. Thats (extremely roughly) how your ears work.
- darkwater 4y agoOK,I think I need to go through primary school human anatomy lessons again :( I completely forgot about those.