English Explanatory Dictionary

hair cell

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibular system in all vertebrates.

Word forms

hair cell hair cells

Etymology

Referring to the tufts of stereocilia that protrude from the apical surface of the cell, a structure known as the hair bundle, into the scala media, a fluid-filled tube within the cochlea.

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