MODIOLUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: modioli   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The central conical bony pillar of the cochlea

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("modiolus" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("modiolus" is a part of...):

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)

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