… and Sounds of Joy. Image of the Week – January 21,…

… and Sounds of Joy. Image of the Week – January 21, 2019

CIL:38908 – http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/38908

Description: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of the inside of a guinea pig inner ear showing the hearing organ, or cochlea. Running along the spiral structure are rows of sensory cells which respond to different frequencies of sound. The whole organ is just a few millimeters long.

Author: David Furness

Licensing: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK)

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