After 20 years on the road, Roger recently retired as the drummer of a rock band. It didn't take long for Roger to realize that he was unable to hear as well as he used to. Roger's diminished hearing is most likely due to damage of

A) the tympanic membrane.
B) the hammer and anvil.
C) hair cells.
D) corpuscles.
E) the auditory nerve.


C

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