How to Use hair cell in a Sentence

hair cell

noun

• What many people do not know is that exposure to loud sounds over time can damage the tiny hair cells of the inner ear.
  — Cory Portnuff, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• But these hair cells are neither an inner nor an outer hair cell.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 May 2022
• But these hair cells are neither an inner nor an outer hair cell.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 May 2022
• Produce is rich in antioxidants, which can help prevent damage to hair cells in the inner ear.
  — Meghan Rabbitt, Woman's Day, 27 Mar. 2019
• Meanwhile, the inner ears of untreated Beethoven mice were almost completely devoid of the hair cells.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Even hair cells, for instance, divide at a particular time each evening, Panda has found.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• Many genetic mutations linked to deafness cause the hair cells in the inner ear to die, but OTOF mutations leave these cells intact.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Actually, the fluid continues to move — bumping into minuscule hair cells and sending messages to the brain — even after the rest of the body comes to a stop.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2023
• As Helen Thompson of Science News explains, birds are able to regenerate tiny hair cells that line sensory portion of the eardrum.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• That system operates as the body’s balance organ; its three semicircular canals are filled with fluid and tiny hair cells that sense in which direction the body is moving.
  — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2018
• Understanding how stress affects stem cell populations, which seed all of the cells in the body, from skin cells to blood cells and hair cells, could provide clues about how to cope better under stress and perhaps even age in a more healthy way.
  — Time, 22 Jan. 2020
• Red light reduces inflammation and increases energy in our skin and hair cells.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 4 Aug. 2023
• These vibrations make fluid inside your cochlea move, stimulating tiny hair cells that send nerve impulses to the brain via the auditory nerve.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 4 Feb. 2018
• After exposing supporting cells — cells that can create new cochlear hairs — to a specialized drug mixture, the team saw significant new hair cell growth.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2017
• In sensing a mechanical stimulus, this trichome—or hair cell of a plant—fluoresces red with acidity and green to indicate base.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2018
• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, any noise louder than 120 decibels can immediately damage the tiny hair cells that help turn vibrations into what our brains perceive as sound.
  — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 3 Feb. 2020
• Lowering temperatures constricts blood flow, thus reducing the amount of medication that enters hair cells.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• But nothing is available to replace damaged hair cells, which have a role in clarifying sound and improving speech intelligibility.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• But nothing is available to replace damaged hair cells, which help clarify sound and improve speech intelligibility.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
• In people who have dysfunctional or dead hair cells, cochlear implants work by electrically stimulating auditory nerve cells directly.
  — Justin Chen, STAT, 11 July 2018

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024