hair bundle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a group of cellular processes resembling hair, characteristic of hair cells
Example Sentences
- "As revealed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, the cavities are arranged in a characteristic honeycomb-like pattern and each hair bundle is enclosed in an alveolus."
- "1988 Howard, J. and Hudspeth, A. J. "Compliance of the hair bundle associated with gating of mechanoelectrical transduction channels in the Bullfrog's saccular hair cell." Neuron 1, no. 3, (1 May 1988) [cited 18 December 2009], 189, http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/0896-6273%2888%2990139-0 . To test this model, we measured the stiffness of hair bundles during mechanical stimulation."