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Hair Cell

Definition: Hair Cell

Hair Cell

Noun

1. A sensory epithelial cell present in the Organ of Corti.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Hair Cell

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Medicine

Epithelial cells with hairlike processes, found in the organ of Corti. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: Hair Cell

Specialty definitions using "hair cell": side effects. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Hair Cell

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hair Cell

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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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hair Cell

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hair cell

17
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Modern Translations: Hair Cell

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.

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Anagrams: Hair Cell

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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Alternative Orthography: Hair Cell


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 69 72      43 65 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000011 01100101 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#67 &#101 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0069 0072      0043 0065 006C 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42677584237717878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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