... makes the eardrum vibrate, the vibrations from the drum get transferred to the hammer, the hammer vibrates the anvil, and then the anvil transfers the vibrations to the stirrup. The cochlea, ... ear).SENSORINEURALSensorineural hearing loss is caused by actual damage to any of the compo-nents between the inner ear and the brain; it harms the hair cells inside the cochlea, a process known as acoustic trauma. ... more.WAVEFORMS A waveform is a graph of the amplitude versus the time of a sound. There are infinite amounts of waveforms, all of which have their own characteristics and sounds, but we can only hear a very...