cochlea

• The stirrup vibrates the membrane of the small oval window that covers a fluid-filled vestibule containing a triple coiled tube called the cochlea (for snail-shell), from which the auditory nerve emerges. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 05 - May 1996
• In the center of the cochlea is the basilar membrane, the surface of which is covered with small hair-like insertional plaques on the cilia. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Sound entering the cochlea is detected by the vibration of tiny, hair-like cilia that extend from cochlear hair cells.
• Without such amplification, hearing would be far less sensitive, since sound waves entering the cochlea are severely diminished as they pass through the inner ear fluid.
• And yet his is not all, for inside that curled part of the labyrinth, which looks like a snail-shell and is called the cochlea, there is a most wonderful apparatus of more than three thousand fine stretched filaments or threads, and these act like the strings of a harp, and make you hear different tones. —  The Fairy-Land of Science

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