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Illustration: View of the mammalian auditory system showing: cochlea, vestibular apparatus, inner hair cell, scala media, tectorial membrane, outer hair cells, cochlear ganglion, organ of Corti, basilar membrane, and stria vasicularis.

Illustration: View of the mammalian auditory system showing: cochlea, vestibular apparatus, inner hair cell, scala media, tectorial membrane, outer hair cells, cochlear ganglion, organ of Corti, basilar membrane, and stria vasicularis.

Schematic illustration of the mammalian auditory system (from Griffith and Friedman, Nature Genetics 1999).