1. Noun
An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
2. Noun
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
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