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nounthe snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Cortitype of:part of:
Definition that contains cochlea
- stirrup the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
- stapes the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
- cochlear of or relating to the cochlea of the ear
- vestibulocochlear nerve a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
- eighth cranial nerve a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
- fenestration surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
- nervus vestibulocochlearis a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
- auditory nerve a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
- fenestra cochleae fenestra leading into the cochlea
- medial geniculate a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex