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Cochlea  n.  (Anat.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.





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"Cochlea" Quotes from Famous Books



... or labyrinth, a cavity in the bone, back of the middle ear, consists of three parts: the Cochlea, the Semicircular Canals, and a middle portion, the Vestibule. The middle ear is connected with the throat by ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various
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... this wonderful, going on as it does at every sound you hear? And yet his is not all, for inside that curled part of the labyrinth, which looks like a snail-shell and is called the cochlea, there is a most wonderful apparatus of more than three thousand fine stretched filaments or threads, and these act like the strings of a harp, and make you hear different tones. If you go near to a harp or a piano, and sing any particular note very loudly, you will hear this note sounding ...
— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley
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Words linked to "Cochlea" :   modiolus, organ of Corti, tube-shaped structure, fenestra of the cochlea, basilar membrane, inner ear


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