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Sunday, 21 May, 2023

Cochlear implant: the bionic ear as a response to deafness – Emergency Live International

The cochlear implant consists of an internal and an external component

The internal component (implanted through surgery) is in turn made up of a very thin metal wire with a variable number of electrodes which is inserted into the patient’s cochlea, a body and a magnet which are positioned under the skin and a magnet , positioned above and behind the auricle.

The external component (similar to a conventional hearing aid) is represented by a language processor and a second magnet, connected to it via a cable.

The speech processor is a sophisticated device that receives sound information from the environment, digitizes it, processes it according to the instructions with which it was programmed and transmits it to the internal component through a radio frequency communication system.

Read more at: 
https://www.emergency-live.com/health-and-safety/cochlear-implant-in-the-child-the-bionic-ear-as-a-response-to-severe-or-profound-deafness/
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