cochlear implant

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noun

a device consisting of microelectrodes that deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve when surgically implanted into the cochlea, enabling a person with sensorineural deafness to hear.

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Also called artificial ear.

Words nearby cochlear implant

cochlea, cochlear aqueduct, cochlear canal, cochlear duct, cochlear hair cell, cochlear implant, cochlear joint, cochlear labyrinth, cochlear nerve, cochlear nucleus, cochleate

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How to use cochlear implant in a sentence

Zohra Damji was profoundly deaf until she was given a cochlear implant at the unusually late age of 12.
Our brains exist in a state of “controlled hallucination”|Matthew Hutson|August 25, 2021|MIT Technology Review
If you ever need a good cry — a happy cry — just type in “cochlear implant activation” on YouTube.
Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast)|Stephen J. Dubner|March 25, 2021|Freakonomics
She noted that most patients using cochlear implants should have retention devices in their kits.
Don’t choose between masks and hearing aids. Here’s how to comfortably wear both.|Allyson Chiu|February 19, 2021|Washington Post
For Saltzman and many people who use amplification devices such as hearing aids or cochlear implants, wearing masks — and now double-masking — to curb the spread of the coronavirus can be a “frustrating” experience.
Don’t choose between masks and hearing aids. Here’s how to comfortably wear both.|Allyson Chiu|February 19, 2021|Washington Post

Most didn’t even notice his cochlear implant on their screen.
How WFH has affected employees with disabilities|Kristine Gill|October 30, 2020|Fortune
I can see the implant in there, and see where the muscle is snatching that implant up.
Azealia Banks Opens Up About Her Journey from Stripping to Rap Stardom|Marlow Stern|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
McDonough helped create an implant prototype, but in the end, “nothing happened to it,” Williams said in court testimony.
Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’|The Center for Investigative Reporting|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After he removed the plastic implant, her skin cleared up completely.
Why Your Doctor Feels Like a 'Beaten Dog'|Daniela Drake|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Food critic and travel writer Lucy Knisley added a comic discussing her personal experiences with the birth control implant.
‘Oh Joy Sex Toy’: The Internet’s Most Radical Sex-Fueled Comic Strip|Rich Goldstein|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you're born deaf, the debate about cochlear implants, children and deaf cultural rights will touch your life in some way.
This Is What It Is Like To Be Deaf From Birth|Quora Contributor|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
How could we avoid receiving, in our infancy, whatever impressions and opinions our teachers and relations chose to implant in us?
Letters To Eugenia|Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
She had made an effort to keep her children from harmful influences and to implant in them a hate for these things.
Maezli|Johanna Spyri
In their cases the mistress has no bad impressions to efface and she can implant her own modes in virgin soil.
The Expert Maid-Servant|Cristine Terhune Herrick
Nor is it a slight proof of the mighty power of love that it can thus implant fear in the breast of a sailor.
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II|Various
If he have sense and abilities, they ought rather to guard his bosom from so contemptible an inmate, than implant it there.
The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I|Sophia Reeve

British Dictionary definitions for cochlear implant

cochlear implant

/ (ˈkɒklɪə) /

noun

a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease

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Medical definitions for cochlear implant

cochlear implant

An electronic device that stimulates auditory nerve fibers in the inner ear in individuals with severe or profound bilateral hearing loss, allowing them to recognize some sounds, especially speech sounds.

Scientific definitions for cochlear implant

cochlear implant

[ kŏk′lē-ər ]

A surgically implanted electronic device that allows people with severe hearing loss to recognize some sounds. It consists chiefly of a microphone and receiver, a processor that converts speech into electronic signals, and an array of electrodes that transmit the signals to the auditory nerve in the inner ear.