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spiral ganglion of cochlea, spiral ganglion of cochlear nerve g. cochleare.Medical dictionary. 2011.
Spiral ganglion — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = ganglion spirale GraySubject = 228 GrayPage = 1051 Caption = Transverse section of the cochlear duct of a fetal cat. (Ganglion spirale is labeled at top, second from left.) Caption2 = Part of the cochlear… … Wikipedia
spiral ganglion — noun : a mass of bipolar nerve cells occupying the spiral canal of the organ of Corti and from their axons forming the cochlear branch of the eighth cranial nerve … Useful english dictionary
spiral — spiral, ale, aux [ spiral, o ] adj. • 1534; lat. scolast. spiralis, de spira → spire ♦ Rare (sauf avec quelques n.) Qui a la forme d une courbe tournant autour d un pôle dont elle s éloigne. Courbe, ligne spirale. Ressort spiral : ressort plat… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Ganglion — The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c. 130 201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome first used the word ganglion to denote a nerve complex. Ganglion still is used to refer to an aggregation of nerve cell bodies. Another use of the… … Medical dictionary
ganglion cochleare — [TA] cochlear ganglion: the sensory ganglion located within the spiral canal of the modiolus. It consists of bipolar cells that send fibers peripherally through the foramina nervosa to the spiral organ and centrally through the internal acoustic… … Medical dictionary
Corti's ganglion — Cor·ti s ganglion kȯrt ēz , kȯr .tēz n SPIRAL GANGLION A. Corti see ORGAN OF CORTI … Medical dictionary
corti's ganglion — ˈkȯrd.ēz, rˌtēz noun Usage: usually capitalized C Etymology: after Alfonso Corti more at arch of corti : a mass of bipolar nerve cells occupying the spiral canal in the modiolus of the cochlea and containing the axons that comprise the cochlear… … Useful english dictionary
ear, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction organ of hearing and equilibrium that detects and analyzes noises by transduction (or the conversion of sound waves into electrochemical impulses) and maintains the sense of balance (equilibrium). The human ear, like … Universalium
Cochlear nerve — Nerve: Cochlear nerve Diagrammatic longitudinal section of the cochlea. (Cochlear nerve is in center, shown as striped.) … Wikipedia
Cochlear nuclei — Brain: Cochlear nuclei Dissection of brain stem. Dorsal view. ( Cochlear nucleus is labeled on left, fifth from the bottom.) … Wikipedia
