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An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

A spoon. Andrews.

Spoon-shaped.

Same as Cochleate.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.

A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

The opening by which the two scalæ communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.

The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.

The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.

The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.

A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

rass Etym: [Scurvy + grass; or cf. Icel. skarfakal scurvy grass.] (Bot.) A kind of cress (Cochlearia officinalis) growing along the seacoast of Northern Europe and in arctic regions. It is a remedy for the scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species of plan…

Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.