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Sense Organs > Ear > Ear, Inner > Cochlea > Cochlear Duct
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Preferred term

Cochlear Duct  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cochlearis, Ductus
  • Ductus Cochlearis
  • Media, Scala
  • Medias, Scala
  • Scala Media
  • Scala Medias

Note

  • do not confuse with COCHLEAR AQUEDUCT

Scope note

  • A spiral tube that is firmly suspended in the bony shell-shaped part of the cochlea. This ENDOLYMPH-filled cochlear duct begins at the vestibule and makes 2.5 turns around a core of spongy bone (the modiolus) thus dividing the PERILYMPH-filled spiral canal into two channels, the SCALA VESTIBULI and the SCALA TYMPANI.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under COCHLEA 1979-90; was DUCTUS COCHLEARIS see under LABYRINTH 1963-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003053

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