BASILAR MEMBRANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basilar membrane mean? 

• BASILAR MEMBRANE (noun)
  The noun BASILAR MEMBRANE has 1 sense:

1. a membrane in the cochlea that supports the organ of Corti

  Familiarity information: BASILAR MEMBRANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASILAR MEMBRANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A membrane in the cochlea that supports the organ of Corti

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("basilar membrane" is a kind of...):

membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)

Holonyms ("basilar membrane" is a part of...):

cochlea (the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti)

 Context examples 

While this stepwise arrangement of hair cells on the basilar membrane—the tonotopic map—has been known for years, how the cells become ordered this way was unknown.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

A flattened cell that rests on the tympanic lip of the spiral lamina (inner pillar cell) and on the basilar membrane (outer pillar cell), thereby forming the tunnel of the Organ of Corti.

(Pillar Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell situated on one of three of the most outer layers of the basilar membrane of the cochlea.

(Outer Hair Cell of the Organ of the Corti, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell situated on the inner most layer of the basilar membrane of the cochlea.

(Inner Hair Cell of the Organ of the Corti, NCI Thesaurus)

A tall, slender cell extending from the basilar membrane to the free surface of the organ of Corti.

(Inner Supporting Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The basilar papilla in chickens, like the cochlea in mammals, has hair cells arranged along the length of a basilar membrane according to frequency.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

These cells are ordered along the basilar membrane according to the frequencies they detect.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

Hair cells are spread across a flat surface called the basilar membrane, which is rolled like a carpet and tucked into a snail shell-shaped structure in the inner ear called the cochlea.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)