extracochlear
extracochlear adjective: outside the cochlea.
Adjective
extracochlear (not comparable)
- Outside the cochlea.
- We used the extracochlear electrode MP1 as the reference electrode and an intracochlear electrode as the recording electrode, the latter offset by two positions from the probe electrode.2015 July 16, “Central Auditory Processing of Temporal and Spectral-Variance Cues in Cochlear Implant Listeners”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin of extracochlear
From extra- + cochlear.
Words that rhyme with extracochlear
- trochlear
- cochlear
- endocochlear
- epitrochlear
- hypocochlear
- infratrochlear
- intertrochlear
- intracochlear
- intratrochlear
- paratrochlear
- postcochlear
- sacculocochlear
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Questions about extracochlear
- What does extracochlear mean?
- Extracochlear means outside the cochlea.
- What part of speech is extracochlear?
- Extracochlear is an adjective.
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