Talk:Helicotrema

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Sound detection[edit]

"This area best detects low frequency sounds." - Error. The helicotrema doesn't detect sound, the hair cells in the helicotrema detect sounds. Fuzzform (talk) 02:11, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Expert attention needed[edit]

This page needs some expert help so that people like me who are just trying to learn how the human hearing apparatus works, in precise technical terms, can have their questions answered. What I would like to know is whether the ascending canal and the descending canal, at the apex of the cochlea where the two meet, allows for a continuous flow of fluid. From what I'm reading, the fluids in the ascending and descending canals are of a slightly different composition, suggesting that they are isolated from one another, perhaps by the helicotrema. Is the helicotrema at all porous? It sounds like it. But if it is, then the fluids in either canal would mix and wouldn't be different in composition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:B011:300:1436:D705:4D59:218E (talk) 17:55, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]