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perimodiolar

perimodiolar adjective: surrounding the modiolus.

Adjective

perimodiolar (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the modiolus
    • The distance between the electrode array contacts and the modiolus wall is an indicator in the case of free-fitting lateral wall electrodes that will predict the fields of excitation to the nearby neural tissue, as the free-fitting lateral wall electrodes are located far from the modiolus wall in...2015 February 13, Jing Zou et al., “Imaging cochlear implantation with round window insertion in human temporal bones and cochlear morphological variation using high-resolution cone beam CT”, in Acta...

Origin of perimodiolar

From peri- + modiolar.

Questions about perimodiolar

What does perimodiolar mean?
Perimodiolar means surrounding the modiolus.
What part of speech is perimodiolar?
Perimodiolar is an adjective.

Words near perimodiolar in the dictionary

  1. perimidine
  2. perimidines
  3. perimineralization
  4. perimitochondrial
  5. perimitral
  6. perimodiolar
  7. perimolysis
  8. perimorph
  9. perimorphic
  10. perimorphism
  11. perimorphous

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