cochlea

Japanese: cochlea
cochlea

… They can also distinguish between approaching and receding prey by the difference in the echoes.
[Human hearing]
The sense of sound is based on vibrations in the air and is found in almost all land animals and some aquatic animals. Each has a variety of hearing organs, but mammals, including humans, have the cochlea as their hearing organ (sound receptor organ). The cochlea is part of the inner ear, but the other parts related to hearing are the middle ear, which animals acquire when they move from the water onto land, and the outer ear, which collects sound.

From the ears

…On the other hand, endolymph has a sodium and potassium ion concentration similar to that of intracellular fluid, and is contained in a closed cavity in the temporal bone. It is secreted by dark cells in the stria vascularis of the cochlea and the semicircular canals of the vestibule, and absorption is thought to occur mainly in the endolymphatic sac. (1) Cochlea The cochlea is literally snail-shell shaped, and in humans it is wound about 2.7 times (Figure 3). In the center is the modiolus, which contains the cochlear nerve and the blood vessels of the inner ear. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "cochlea" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,接近してくる餌と遠ざかる餌とをこだまの違いで区別できる。【立田 栄光】
【ヒトの聴覚】
 音の感覚は,空気の振動に基づくもので,ほとんどすべての陸生動物と一部の水生動物にみられ,それぞれさまざまな聴覚器(聴覚器官)をもっているが,ヒトを含めて哺乳類は聴覚器(音受容器官)として蝸牛cochleaをもつ。蝸牛は内耳の一部をなすが,そのほかに聴覚に関係するのは,動物が水中から陸上に上がった際に獲得した中耳と,集音のための外耳である。…

【耳】より

…一方,内リンパは細胞内液に近いナトリウム・カリウムイオン濃度をもち,側頭骨内にある閉鎖した腔に入っており,蝸牛の血管条,前庭半規管では暗細胞によって分泌され,吸収は主として内リンパ囊で行われると考えられている。(1)蝸牛 蝸牛cochleaは文字どおりカタツムリの殻状をしており,ヒトでは2.7回転ほど巻いている(図3)。中心には蝸牛軸があり,蝸牛神経,内耳血管を含む。…

※「cochlea」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Cochlear Canal (English)

>>:  Cochläus, J.

Recommend

Musical Offering - Musical Offering (English spelling)

Johann Sebastian Bach composed nine contrapuntal ...

neural tube

…When the upper lip of the blastopore invaginates...

élan d'amour (English spelling)

…On the other hand, the material world, which mer...

Karabag - Karabag

...The surrounding area is the Baku oil field. Th...

Chofu

A district of Shimonoseki City in the southwest o...

Anastasios I

430-518 Byzantine Emperor. Reigned 491-518. After ...

super-sonic transport

...super-sonic transport, an aircraft used for tr...

Pyrotechnics

…He traveled through Germany and Italy, acquiring...

Greenland seal

…It is named after the harp-shaped pattern on its...

White, J.

…It is a valuable source of information about the...

Ninja - Jounin

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A ...

Textbook - Kyokasho

Generally speaking, it refers to books that are e...

entire

...An institution that handles the so-called thre...

Mansaku Otani - Mansaku Otani

...He became a disciple of the second Tomoemon an...

Credit crisis

…In the process of its occurrence, the excess cap...