a. Anat. [f. Corti, name of an Italian anatomist (1729–1813) + -AN.] In Cortian organ, fibres, membrane, rods, parts of the internal ear; also organ, fibres, etc., of Corti.

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1872.  Huxley, Physiol., viii. (1881), 213. The scala media and its Cortian fibres. Ibid., Index 311. Cortian membrane and fibres.

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