Medical Dictionary

spiral lamina

noun

Medical Definition of SPIRAL LAMINA

:  a twisting shelf of bone which projects from the modiolus into the canal of the cochlea as it coils around the modiolus and to which the inner margin of the basilar membrane is attached—called also lamina spiralis

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