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- noun Plural form of
stereocilium .
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Examples
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For example, you can hear the phone ring because sound waves vibrate hairlike projections (called stereocilia) that extend from cells in your inner nervous system.
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For example, you can hear the phone ring because sound waves vibrate hairlike projections (called stereocilia) that extend from cells in your inner [[ear]].
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] MindyMo 2010
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For example, you can hear the phone ring because sound waves vibrate hairlike projections (called stereocilia) that extend from cells in your inner nervous system.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] MindyMo 2010
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For example, you can hear the phone ring because sound waves vibrate hairlike projections (called stereocilia) that extend from cells in your inner [[ear]].
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] MindyMo 2010
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The cells contain tiny clumps of hairlike projections, known as stereocilia, which are arranged in rows by height.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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The cells contain tiny clumps of hairlike projections, known as stereocilia, which are arranged in rows by height.
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The cells are adorned with height-ordered hair-like projections called stereocilia, which, when deflected toward the tallest member, set in motion a series of events that decodes sounds into a neural code.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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- called stereocilia - from the original hair cells.
Media Newswire 2010
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The cells in the inner ear have hair-like projections, called stereocilia.
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When sound vibrations reach the stereocilia, the vibrations are converted into a signal that can be interpreted in the brain as sound.
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