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What is sensory receptor for hearing?

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A Sensory Receptor is a cell within the peripheral nervous system that gathers information from the environment and from inside your body.

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This is straight from Wikipedia, so NO CREDIT FOR ME!: "In a sensory system, a sensory receptor is a sensory nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism."

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organ of corti (containing hair cells) on the basilar membrane separating cochlear duct and scala tympani all contained within the cochlea

Cochlea

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a nerve that senses that us located in the skin

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