A clinical manual of the diseases of the ear / by Laurence Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, Laurence, 1821-1900.
Date:
1887
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Credit: A clinical manual of the diseases of the ear / by Laurence Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    like manner. In their farther course downward, the descend- ing fibres diminish very strikingly, to be finally reinserted with a broader bell-shaped end on the membrana basilaris. This end (according to Kolliker), towards the concavity, and likewise on the starting-point of the ascending fibre, contains a nucleus, which is not always to be found on the single fibres Fig. 11.—The entire Membrana Basilaris, with all its parts lying EXPOSED FROM ABOVE TO SHOW THE PROPORTION OF NERVES.— CoRTl'S Organ from the side. (After Deiters.) a, the teeth ; 6, the large cells which fill the sulcus, partly passed forward; c, holes or foramina of the habenula perforata; dq, inner Corti fibres; e, outer Corti fibres ; f, con- necting rods detached; g, the first bundles of the transverse nerve fibres ; h, the second from above respiratory outward : in these are seen the so-called phalanges ; i, the third; Jc, the fourth; I, arising longitudinal nerve fibres, which submerge in the first bundle of the transverse ones ; m, cylindrical cells on the lower arch of the pars membranacea; n,the cells of Claudius on the connecting rods; o, the supporting fibrous system of Corti's organ; p, a longitudinal nerve fibre on the base of Corti's arch; x, cells of Corti; y, fusiform cells.