Meaning Cochlear implant
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A device that is surgically placed (implanted) within the inner ear to help a person with a certain form of deafness to hear. Cochlear implants rarely cure severe or profound deafness, but they can help some hearing-impaired people to distinguish the sounds of language clearly enough to participate in a verbal environment. For children who are cong [..]
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A device surgically implanted in the cochlea which translates sound into electrical impulses conveyed to the auditory nerve to facilitate hearing.
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A Cochlear Implant is a small electronic device surgically implanted in and behind the ear to help deaf people hear. The implants do not restore hearing completely, but they allow sound to bypass dama [..]
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medical device that bypasses damaged structures in the inner ear and directly stimulates the auditory nerve, allowing some deaf individuals to learn to hear and interpret sounds and speech.
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An electromechanical device that detects sounds and selectively stimulates nerves in different regions of the cochlea via surgically implanted electrodes.
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Background: A cochlear implant is an electronic device that can help a person who is deaf or hard of hearing. The device does not fully restore hearing, but it gives a representation of sounds to help [..]
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A small electronic device that is implanted in the inner ear to restore some hearing to a deaf person.
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Electronic Hearing devices typically used for Patients with normal outer and Middle Ear function, but defective inner ear function. In the Cochlea, the Hair Cells (Hair Cells, Vestibular) may be absen [..]
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 A Cochlear Implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. The Cochlear Implant is often referred to as a bionic ear.. Read more  A Cochlear Implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that [..]
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A medical device that is implanted into the head of a deaf person. When used with a microphone and speech processor, it electrically stimulates the auditory nerve so the person is able to hear sound.
Source: comomeningitis.org

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A cochlear implant is an electronic hearing device. Where hearing aids amplify sounds so they may be detected by damaged ears, cochlear implants bypass damaged portions of the ear and directly stimula [..]
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