Cochlea definition

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noun

(1) The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti

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Noun

The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.