Taber's Medical Dictionary
Corti, Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare
(kor′tē)
Italian anatomist, 1822-1876.
canal of Corti
A longitudinal, triangular canal extending the length of the organ of Corti. Its walls are formed by the external and internal pillar cells.
Corti ganglion
A ganglion on the cochlear nerve.
organ of Corti
An elongated spiral structure running the length of the cochlea in the floor of the cochlear duct and resting on the basilar membrane. It contains hair cells that are stimulated by sound waves (the receptors for hearing).
SYN: SEE: organum spirale; SEE: spiral organ
ORGAN OF CORTI ; SEE: Claudius' cell
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Corti, Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/761183/all/Corti__Alfonso_Giacomo_Gaspare.
Corti, Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/761183/all/Corti__Alfonso_Giacomo_Gaspare. Accessed December 2, 2023.
Corti, Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/761183/all/Corti__Alfonso_Giacomo_Gaspare
Corti, Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 December 02]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/761183/all/Corti__Alfonso_Giacomo_Gaspare.
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