"Cochlear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mammals) a spiral form something like a snail's shell, and therefore called the cochlea ( snail, b). On the thin wall of this delicate labyrinth the acoustic nerve, which comes from the after-brain, spreads out in most elaborate fashion. It divides into two main branches—a cochlear nerve (for the cochlea) and a vestibular nerve (for the rest of the labyrinth). The former seems to have more to do with the quality, the latter with the quantity, of the acoustic sensations. Through the cochlear ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel |
