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cochlea

coch·lea

UK/ˈkɒk.li.ə/ US/ˈkoʊ.kli.ə/ uncommon

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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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Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).

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