outer hair

collocation in English

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outer
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈaʊ.tər/us
/ˈaʊ.t̬ɚ/
at a greater distance from ...
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hair
noun[C or U]
uk
/heər/us
/her/
the mass of thin thread-like structures on the head of a person, or any of these structures that grow out of the skin of a person ...
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(Definition ofouterandhairfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Longouterhaircovers a short, dense, black and white underfur.
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Prestin densely lines the lipid bilayer of theouterhaircell membranes.
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Outerhaircells serve as acoustic amplifiers for stimulation of the inner hair cells.
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Nerve fiber innervation is much denser for inner hair cells than forouterhaircells.
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It is dominated by theouterhaircells of the organ of corti.
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At the opposite basilar pole, theouterhaircells are firmly held by the phalangeal cells.
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Efferent synapses occur onouterhaircells and on afferent (towards the brain) axons under inner hair cells.
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Immunolocalization shows prestin is expressed in the lateral plasma membrane of theouterhaircells, the region where occurs.
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Prestin is the motor protein of theouterhaircells of the inner ear of the mammalian cochlea.
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The motor protein prestin, expressed in mammalian cochlearouterhaircells, produces mechanical amplification in the cochlea.
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It is highly expressed in theouterhaircells, and is not expressed in the nonmotile inner hair cells.
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Theouterhaircells, instead, mainly "receive" neural input from the brain, which influences their motility as part of the cochlea's mechanical pre-amplifier.
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This can lead to fatigue and temporary hearing loss if theouterhaircells do not get the opportunity to recover through periods of silence.
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A single inner hair cell is innervated by numerous nerve fibers, whereas a single nerve fiber innervates manyouterhaircells.
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Electron microscopy studies demonstrate cyst wall cells undergoing trichilemmal keratinization similar to that of the isthmus portion of theouterhairsheath.
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This is because the frequency selectivity and the tuning of the basilar membrane is reduced as theouterhaircells are damaged.
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The superior frequency range in mammals is partly due to their unique mechanism of pre-amplification of sound by active cell-body vibrations ofouterhaircells.
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Cochlear hair cells are organized as inner hair cells andouterhaircells; inner and outer refer to relative position from the axis of the cochlear spiral.
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Specifically, the active amplification function of theouterhaircells is very sensitive to damage from exposure to trauma from overly-loud sounds or to certain ototoxic drugs.
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The molecular biology of hair cells has seen considerable progress in recent years, with the identification of the motor protein (prestin) that underlies somatic electromotility in theouterhaircells.
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