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Definition of Organ of hearing

1. Noun. The part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound.

Medical Definition of Organ of hearing

1. The content of the cochlea including the portion of the membranous labyrinth containing the spiral organ (cochlear duct) and the perilymphatic channels (scalae) which lie on either side. Synonym: labyrinthus cochlearis, organ of hearing. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Organ of hearing

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1. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1843)
"On the Organ of Hearing in Crustacea. By ARTHUR FARRE, MD, FRS Received ... ALTHOUGH the existence of an organ of hearing in the class Crustacea has not ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"THE organ of hearing IN LEUCAEMIA. DR. GIUSEPPE GRADENIGO, JR., of Padua ... the organ of hearing, in consequence of leucaemia, heretofore fully described, ..."

3. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man : an Interpretation by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"From the perception of sounds it is inferred that the organ-of-hearing exists. ... Hence it is the organ-of-hearing only which is the field of operation for ..."

4. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1864)
"The class celled Sepia has the organ of hearing, though somewhat differently constructed from what it 1ч in ... of on organ of hearing iu tho Cephalopoda. ..."

5. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"To assign the immediate Organ of Hearing, and to explain in general the Uses of the ... THE immediate organ of hearing appears to be the soft portion of the ..."

6. Handbook of physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes (1873)
"Anatomy of the Organ of Hearing. For descriptive purposes, the ear, or organ of hearing, is divided into three parts, the external, the middle, ..."

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