ORGAN OF HEARING • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Organ of hearing

/ˈɔrgən əv hˈɪrɪŋ/ Listen

Organ of hearing

noun

The part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound.

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"Organ of hearing" Quotes from Famous Books

... breath (which would otherwise suggest itself as the most obvious explanation of prna) does not harmonise with the metaphorical term 'light.' 'Of the eye' refers to the organ of sight; 'of the ear' to the organ of hearing. 'Of food' comprises the senses of smell and taste together: it denotes the sense of smell on the ground that that sense is connected with earth, which may be 'food,' and the sense of taste in so far ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... The complicated organ of hearing is protected by a winding series of minute apartments, in the rock-like portion of the temporal bone. The socket for the eye has a jutting ridge of bone all around it, to guard the organ of vision against injury. Grooves and canals, formed in hard bone, lodge and protect minute ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

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