Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

organ of corti

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables: or-gan of -cor-ti
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Part of the cochlea of the inner ear in mammals, provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells.

Etymology

Named after the Italian anatomist Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822–1876).

Inflected Forms

organs of Corti (plural) Corti's organ (alternative, obsolete)

Questions

What does organ of corti mean?: Part of the cochlea of the inner ear in mammals, provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells.
Where does organ of corti come from?: Named after the Italian anatomist Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822–1876).

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