cochlear implant

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cochlear implant

[¦kō·klē·ər ′im‚plant]
(neuroscience)
A sensory prosthesis that restores some hearing to deaf people by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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| LISTEN UP: Tobin May, right, puts on a demonstration during the Bionic Ear Show at Salendine Nook High School, with year nine students Stella Illingsworth, Nathan Jessop, Imran Saeed and Rav Jassal Picture by Andy Catchpool (AC121012Csaln-01)
"Now I'm supporting the National Lottery Awards finalist The Bionic Ear that runs roadshows across the UK, teaching children and adults the importance of looking after your hearing, something it's too easy to take for granted."
It's why I'm supporting The National Lottery Awards finalist The Bionic Ear that runs roadshows in schools and communities across the UK to teach children and adults the importance of looking after your hearing.
Sponsored by BUPA and the BIG Lottery Fund, the Bionic Ear Show will tour the UK accompanied by the 'World's Largest Ear'.
Nine months is the best age to have this done but doctors say it must be carried out by the age of two, otherwise the pathways in the brain develop in such a way that even with a bionic ear she is unlikely to hear."
THE Bionic Ear Show, from national charity Deafness Research UK, visits the Big Bang Fair at the NEC tomorrow.
The good faith bargaining provisions of the Act are welcome, but the intractable dispute they were designed to overcome--at the Cochlear bionic ear plant--remains unresolved.
The fun and antics raised pounds 145, which will help the nation's heart charity to continue its life-saving work WHO: Mitchell Brady, a student at The King's Academy, Coulby Newham, helps Tobin May to demonstrate the movement of sound waves at the Bionic Ear Show.
Or what about the Bionic Ear Stealth Listening Device (pounds 19.99): it enables you to hear distant sounds through walls and doors to detect intruders and defend against enemy spies.
The cost of rebuilding her was classified, but they gave her a new arm, legs and, rather amusingly, a bionic ear.
The cochlear implant or bionic ear has restored the hearing of thousands of children with severe to profound hearing loss