How to Use cochlear implant in a Sentence
cochlear implant
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Look at the cochlear implant, which allows some deaf people to hear.
—Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012
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Most didn’t even notice his cochlear implant on their screen.
—Kristine Gill, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2020
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Their search led them to a little device that could change their daughter’s life: a cochlear implant.
—Caitlyn Richard, Fox News, 28 June 2018
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Ayla was born deaf, but she has just been fitted with cochlear implants, which enable her to hear.
—Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 2 July 2018
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The 10-year-old girl, Shae Bell, had just gotten a cochlear implant, and Natalie came up with the perfect idea: a velcro sign.
—Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2019
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Since the mid-1980s, the cochlear implant has been the main device that the deaf and severely hard of hearing use to connect with the auditory world.
—Kate Keller, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2018
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Jace, who is deaf, lost his hearing at a young age and only recently began to catch glimpses of loud sounds with the help of a cochlear implant.
—CBS News, 11 Jan. 2018
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Turn it down, y'all, before her cochlear implant explodes!
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
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Using creativity -- and a lot of glitter -- the teacher added hearing aids and cochlear implants to the new baby dolls for the school.
—Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 30 Sep. 2019
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The video is now being shared by the company to show others how life-changing cochlear implants can be for some patients.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2019
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The Burkses enjoy spreading the word about cochlear implants among their peers at church and in their community.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 20 Nov. 2019
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This decreased the gap between the nerve and the cochlear implant, and improved communication between the two.
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2014
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Preserving the hearing nerve allowed a cochlear implant to be placed in the inner ear to restore Hauck’s hearing.
—Kadee Krieger | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2021
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Beck has been practicing for 20 years and averages 40 cochlear implants a year.
—Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
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The family moved to Minsk when Korney was two so that he could be given a cochlear implant.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
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Other children in the study had previously received a cochlear implant in one ear and had already learned to speak.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
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A’deja Rivers has been deaf since birth and so has lived in a silent world without hearing her mom’s voice but all that changed June 20 when the tiny tot’s cochlear implants were activated.
—Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2019
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Hearing aids and cochlear implants are often used to amplify sounds.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
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Many deaf individuals have chosen not to undergo cochlear implant surgery, even with the prospect of being able to hear for the first time.
—Ronit Molko, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
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So far, he’s created about 200 custom dolls, including a doll in a wheelchair, a doll with alopecia and one with a cochlear implant.
—Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2019
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Think pacemakers for the heart, cochlear implants for the ears and deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease.
—Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2018
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When a hearing aid is no longer beneficial, a cochlear implant is a good option for many patients.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 20 Nov. 2019
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Anna Esler and her husband had known from the beginning that their 1-year-old daughter, Ayla, was deaf and that a cochlear implant could help her hear.
—Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
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Hearing through a cochlear implant is different from normal hearing and takes time to learn or relearn.
—Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
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Follow-up tests showed that Betty has profound hearing loss and was, therefore, a candidate for the cochlear implant.
—Rachel Bluth, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
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Advances in hearing aids and cochlear implants mean some hear partly at loud concerts, with interpreters filing in the blanks.
—Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2019
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Further, Lawrence is even looking to improve upon the masks by making them wearable for people with cochlear implants and hearing aids.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2020
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In the lab’s back room, another model shows the second half of the concept: There, the e-nose sensor transmits its signal to a small array of electrodes taken from a cochlear implant.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
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Elana Powell wears a hearing aid and a cochlear implant and still struggles to communicate in masked situations at work.
—Kelly Dougher, Allure, 12 Oct. 2020
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To help those who are hearing impaired, in the 1970s husband and wife Erwin and Ingeborg Hochmair developed the multichannel cochlear implant.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2023
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