The cochlea is a coiled, tapered tube inside the inner ear. It is responsible for transmitting sound to the auditory nerve[?]. The stapes transmits vibrations to the fenestra ovalis on the outside of the cochlea, which vibrates perilymph[?] fluid inside the cochlea, which in turn vibrates the basilar membrane[?]. When the basilar membrane moves, it stimulates hair cells in the organ of Corti[?], which are connected to the auditory nerve; the auditory nerve transmits sound data to the brain.
mother arrived together, and I alone. We seemed to have met for the
trembled in the presence of these ugly little men, who, in their eyes,
name.html">name, Christian name, and profession. Then they gave me an extraordinary
me by the civilian authorities of the island of Kiu-Siu, to inhabit a
Chrysantheme, the said permission being under the protection of the
very pretty affair--a procession carrying lanterns, a festive tea and
into everyday habits.
Chrysantheme tends the flowers in our bronze vases, dresses herself with
day on a kind of long-necked guitar, producing sweet and plaintive
CHAPTER VI
MY NEW MENAGE
In our home, everything looks like a Japanese picture: we have folding-
the farther end of the apartment, in a nook forming a kind of altar, a
Japan I had had before my arrival, during the long night watches: perched
paper panels, and taken to pieces according to one's fancy, like a
resounding roof. From our veranda we have a bewildering bird's-eye view
certain hours, is illuminated at our feet like some scene in fairyland.
and by everybody. Whoever has looked at one of those paintings on china
head-dress, the leaning figure, ever ready to try some new gracious
flowing sleeves, the drapery slightly clinging about the ankles with a
about it.
Moreover, the type.html">type of women the Japanese paint mostly on their vases is
nobility that these personages are found, with their long, pale faces,
appearance of storks. This distinguished type (which I am obliged to
pleasant and sometimes becomes a kind of prettiness. The eyes are still
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