modiolus

Example sentences from the Web for modiolus

• Modiolus, mo-dī′o-lus, n. the central stem round which wind the passages of the cochlea of the internal ear.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) |Various

• At the extremity of the modiolus, the two passages communicate with each other.

  A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) |Calvin Cutter

• The Latin term for the trephine, modiolus, has the same meaning.

  Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times |John Stewart Milne

• Name from modiolus, the broad and depressed fruit resembling in shape the Roman measure of that name.

  The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States |Asa Gray