VocabauraVOCABAURA

organ of corti

noun

Simple meaning

Part of the cochlea of the inner ear in mammals, provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells.

Pronunciation

Say it like this:

awrguhnuhvkawrtee

Say the bold part a little louder.

US device voice
IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈɔɹɡəˈnʌvˈkɔɹti

This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.

Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

noun

  1. anatomy

    Part of the cochlea of the inner ear in mammals, provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells.

  2. anatomy

    The hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: Part of the cochlea of the inner ear in mammals, provided with hair cells or auditory sensory cells.

Used this way, organ of corti is a specialist word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a clinical use: it belongs to medical description, where it is factual rather than emotive.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Specialist/technical
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Specialized
Connotation
Clinical and technical
Usage feel
Technical and specialized

Where it naturally appears

  • Medicine/healthcare
  • Science
  • Technical/specialist writing

Usage note

In general conversation this sense usually needs explaining — outside its field, people reach for a plainer word.

Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.

Share your sentence

Write your own example sentence using “organ of corti”. We review each one before it appears.

Ask Vocabaura

Understand the word your way.

What Does It Mean Here?

Words can change meaning depending on context.

Use it yourself

Knowing “organ of corti” starts when you use it. Pick a next step, all free.

Know the meaning? Practice using it in a real situation, free, no credits.

Dictionary data from Wiktionary via the Free Dictionary API. Simple meanings, combinations and word intelligence are built from verified reference data, no AI is used to load this page.