Ronald A. Bergman, Ph.D., Adel K. Afifi, M.D., Paul M. Heidger,
Jr., Ph.D.
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Guinea pig, Müller's fluid, H. & E., 612 x.
Bone: Modiolus or central conical pillar of spongy bone of the osseous cochlea.
Cochlear nerve fibers: Central processes of the bipolar ganglion cells.
Bipolar cell bodies: Spiral ganglion. Peripheral processes of sensory hair cells located in the organ of Corti.* Central processes from the spiral ganglion cells form the cochlear nerve (auditory part of the eighth cranial nerve).
See Plate 311.
*Corti was a nineteenth-century Italian anatomist.
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