ORGAN OF HEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organ of hearing mean? 

• ORGAN OF HEARING (noun)
  The noun ORGAN OF HEARING has 1 sense:

1. the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound

  Familiarity information: ORGAN OF HEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGAN OF HEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("organ of hearing" is a kind of...):

receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organ of hearing"):

organ of Corti (the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves)

Holonyms ("organ of hearing" is a part of...):

ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)

 Context examples 

It contains the sensory organ of hearing.

(Cochlea, NCI Thesaurus)

The organ of hearing located on the left side of the head.

(Left Ear, NCI Thesaurus)

The internal ear; the essential part of the organ of hearing.

(Murine Inner Ear, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Then came another rush of sea-fog, greater than any hitherto—a mass of dank mist, which seemed to close on all things like a grey pall, and left available to men only the organ of hearing, for the roar of the tempest, and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The organ of hearing: composed of the external ear, which includes the auricle and the external acoustic, or auditory, meatus; the middle ear, or the tympanic cavity with its ossicles; and the internal ear or inner ear, or labyrinth, which includes the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea.

(Murine Ear, NCI Thesaurus)