The central cone shaped core of spongy bone about which turns the spiral canal. [ MP:0003309 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Synonyms: modiolus of cochlea cochlea modiolus modiolus cochleae
Term information
- BTO:0001693
- EMAPA:35575
- MA:0001182
- FMA:61278
- UMLS:C0229503 (ncithesaurus:Modiolus)
- Wikipedia:Modiolus_(cochlea)
- NCIT:C33135
- SCTID:361314007
pheno_slim, organ_slim
Term relations
- zone of bone organ
- ectoderm-derived structure
- contributes to morphology of some cochlea
- part of some osseus cochlea