Cochlea

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 22

kok′le-a, n. a spiral-shaped shell, esp. the snail-shell: ( an at. ) the spiral cavity of the ear.— adjs. Cochlear′iform ; Coch′leary , Coch′leāte , Coch′leāted , twisted. [L.,—Gr. kochlias , a snail.]