The outside of the inner ear is made of bone (bony labyrinth).
Factors that alter the properties of inner ear fluid may help cause Meniere's disease.
According to researchers at Manchester University, music fans are stimulating part of the inner ear known as the sacculus, which responds to the beat in music.
Today's electrodes are bundles of wires that are fed into the snail-shaped cochlea of the inner ear and stimulate it in as many as 22 places.
Although Ennis arrives in Barcelona as the world number one and favourite for heptathlon gold, an infection of the inner ear earlier this month left her so dizzy she was unable to train.
As sighted drivers do, Mark made active use of his other senses such as sound, listening to the noise the tires generate rolling over the roads, and used the sense of angular and linear acceleration perceived from his inner ear to make judgments and adjustments to the controls of the vehicle.
The inner ear is a cluster of connected passages and cavities called a labyrinth.
It appears to be the result of the abnormal volume or composition of fluid in the inner ear.
The sudden shift of fluid in their inner ear makes them feel like they turned their head a lot faster.
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In order for all of the sensors in the inner ear to function properly, the fluid needs to retain a certain volume, pressure and chemical composition.
The engineers found a way to kick-start a radio-frequency device wirelessly using an external power source initially, but running the device afterward on the output of power generated by the inner ear.
Mr. Dean says it's important to remember that balance comprises three parts: vision, inner ear and proprioception, the body's awareness of itself in space.
Work is still early enough that there's a long way to go before such implants are part of any treatments, but there's hope that future chip iterations could help fix inner ear maladies, not just report on them.
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