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Lagena

 

1. the curved, flask-shaped organ of hearing in vertebrates lower than mammals, corresponding to the cochlear duct.
2. the upper extremity of the cochlear duct.

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Lagena is #12, and is labeled at upper right.
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Lagena is #12, and is labeled at upper left and lower left.
Gray's subject #232 1054

The extremities of the ductus cochlearis are closed; the upper is termed the lagena and is attached to the cupula at the upper part of the helicotrema; the lower is lodged in the recessus cochlearis of the vestibule.

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.



 
 
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