Definitions for cochleas

cochleas coch·le·a

Spelling: [kok-lee-uh, koh-klee-uh]
IPA: /ˈkɒk li ə, ˈkoʊ kli ə/

Cochleas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in cochleas (accehlos).

Definitions for cochleas

noun

  1. a spiral-shaped cavity forming a division of the internal ear in humans and in most other mammals.

Origin of cochleas

1530-40; Latin Greek kochlíās snail (with spiral shell), screw, probably akin to kónchē conch

Examples for cochleas

cochleatus is from cochlea, a snail, from resembling its shell.

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

A dull bookworm like me,—cochlea vitam agens, Mr. Squills,—leading the life of a snail!

Stretched across within the cochlea are some 3000 fibers or strings.

At the most, they knew the use of the spoon or cochlea, which they employed in eating eggs.

In the cochlea are about 2,800 tiny nerve-ends, called the rods of Corti.

To destroy the cochlear nerve, the whole of the cochlea should be removed.

Here is a cochlea; a meatus; and, as it should seem, more than one tympanum.

The outer half of the first whorl of the cochlea is formed by the promontory.

I rang his cochlea and subvocalized: “Get ready to jump out on my signal.”

Word Value for cochleas
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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