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Organ of corti

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Noun
  1. 1
    Part of the cochlea of the inner ear in mammals, provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells.
  2. 2
    the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves wordnet

Etymology

Named after the Italian anatomist Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822–1876).

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