Otoacoustics
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The science studying otoacoustic sounds. uncountable
- 2 Otoacoustic sounds and related phenomena, collectively. uncountable
"These faint sounds of otoacoustics, produced by the expansion and contractions of hair cells within the outer cochlea, could not be measured until the development of sufficiently sensitive low noise microphones in the late 1970s, so the […]"
Example
More examples"These faint sounds of otoacoustics, produced by the expansion and contractions of hair cells within the outer cochlea, could not be measured until the development of sufficiently sensitive low noise microphones in the late 1970s, so the […]"
Etymology
From oto- + acoustics.
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