See Also: bladefish(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Corti(dictionary)
organ of corti(medicine)
Corti's arch(medicine)
Corti's tunnel(medicine)
Corti's rods(medicine)
Corti's pillars(medicine)
Corti's organ(medicine)
Corti's membrane(medicine)

Corti's ganglion (medicine) and bladefish (medicine)


Corti's ganglion (medicine)


Corti's ganglion -->
spiral ganglion of cochlea


An elongated ganglion of bipolar sensory nerve cell bodies on the cochlear part of the vestibulocochlear nerve in the spiral canal of the modiolus; each ganglion cell gives rise to a peripheral process that passes between the layers of the bony spiral lamina to the organ of Corti, and a central axon that enters the hindbrain as a component of the inferior (cochlear) root of the eighth nerve.

Synonym: ganglion spirale cochleae, auditory ganglion, cochlear ganglion, Corti's ganglion, spiral cochlear ganglion.


bladefish (medicine)


bladefish
<marine biology> A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

Source: Websters Dictionary