Definition of Cochlia
||Coch"le*a (k&obreve;k"l&esl;*&adot;),
n. [L., a snail, or snail shell, Gr.
kochli`as a snail, fr. ko`chlos a shellfish
with a spiral shell.] (Anat.) An appendage of the
labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into
a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered tube of the inner ear in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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