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cochlea

 
Noun cochlea has 1 sense
  1. cochlea - 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
    --1 is a kind of
    tube, tube-shaped structure
    --1 is a part of inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth
    --1 has part: basilar membrane; modiolus; organ of Corti
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