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Definition: Hair Cell |
Hair CellNoun1. A sensory epithelial cell present in the Organ of Corti. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Epithelial cells with hairlike processes, found in the organ of Corti. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Hair Cell |
| Specialty definitions using "hair cell": side effects. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, scientists have discovered that damage to the structure of the hair bundle of the hair cell is related to temporary and permanent loss of hearing. (references) | |
With a comparable exposure to low-frequency noise, hair cell damage is not confined to the low-frequency region but may also affect the high-frequency regions. (references) | ||
Damage to the stereocilia is often the first change, specifically, alteration of the rootlet structures that normally anchor the stereocilia into the top of the hair cell. Once destroyed, the sensory cells are not replaced. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hair cell | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hair cell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | haarcelle. (various references) | |
Dutch | haarcel, gehoorhaar, gehoorcel, cel van Corti. (various references) | |
Finnish | karvasolu. (various references) | |
French | ciliée vestibulaire, cellule sensorielle de Corti, cellule ciliée. (various references) | |
German | Haarzelle. (various references) | |
Greek | τριχωτό κύτταρο του οργάνου του Corti, τριχωτό κύτταρο. (various references) | |
Italian | cellula sensoriale di CORTI, cellula ciliata. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airhay ellcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | célula sensorial de Corti, célula ciliada. (various references) | |
Spanish | célula sensorial de Corti, célula ciliada. (various references) | |
Swedish | hörselcell, hårcell. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: challie, charlie, chiller, helical. | |
-2 letters: achier, archil, cahier, caller, cellar, chiral, eclair, hailer, heliac, hiller, lacier, recall. | |
-3 letters: areic, ariel, carle, cella, celli, ceria, chair, chare, chela, chiel, chile, chill, clear, erica, haler, hilar, ileac, ileal, iller, lacer, laich, larch, leach, lilac, reach, relic, rille. | |
-4 letters: ache, acre, alec, arch, aril, call, care, carl, ceil, cell, char, chia, cire, each, earl, elhi, hail, hair, hale, hall, hare, harl, heal, hear, heil, heir, hell, herl, hila, hill, hire, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lari, leal, lear, lech, lehr, liar, lice, lich, lier, lira, lire, race, rail, rale, real, rhea, rial, rice, rich, riel, rile, rill. | |
-5 letters: ace, ail, air, ale, all, arc, are, car, cel, chi, ear, ell, era, hae, her, hic, hie, ice, ich, ill, ire, lac, lar, lea, lei, lie, rah, rec, rei, ria. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: rachillae. | |
+2 letters: cheliceral, heroically. | |
+3 letters: heretically, rheological, spherically, thermically. | |
+4 letters: calligrapher, cherubically, chimerically, cholerically, euphorically, hemerocallis, heraldically, herbicidally, hermetically, hieratically, hyperbolical, hysterically, rhetorically, seraphically, superhelical, theatrically. | |
+5 letters: allelomorphic, archeological, calligraphers, calligraphies, candlelighter, chancelleries, chancellories, graphemically, heterothallic, heuristically, intrathecally, lamellibranch, lethargically, liebfraumilch, morphemically, orthoepically, phallocentric, phrenological, prophetically, rechallenging, rechannelling, rheologically, rheumatically, theoretically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 69 72      43 65 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000011 01100101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a i r   C e l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0069 0072      0043 0065 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42677584237717878 |
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