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transcochlear

transcochlear adjective: across or through the cochlea.

Adjective

transcochlear (not comparable)

  1. Across or through the cochlea.
    • A new approach to tumors of the skull base is described. This approach is accomplished by forward extension of the translabyrinthine opening into the cerebellopontine angle. […] We provide the case histories of four patients in whom this approach was successfully used in removal of skull base...1976, House WF, Hitselberger WE, “The transcochlear approach to the skull base.”, in Arch Otolaryngol, volume 102, number 6, →PMID, pages 334–342
    • The objective of transtemporal surgery is wide skull-base exposure obtained by precise anatomic management of the temporal bone. […] The transpetrosal surgical routes can be classified broadly into anterior and posterior. The posterior transpetrosal approaches include the retrolabyrinthine...2010, Bernardo A, Stieg PE, “Translabyrinthine and transcochlear petrosal approaches”, in Cappabianca P, Iaconetta G, Califano L, editors, Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery, →DOI, →ISBN...

Origin of transcochlear

From trans- + cochlear.

Words that rhyme with transcochlear

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Questions about transcochlear

What does transcochlear mean?
Transcochlear means across or through the cochlea.
What part of speech is transcochlear?
Transcochlear is an adjective.

Words near transcochlear in the dictionary

  1. transclusion
  2. transclusions
  3. TransCo
  4. transcobalamin
  5. transcobalamins
  6. transcochlear
  7. transcodable
  8. transcode
  9. transcoded
  10. transcoder
  11. transcoders

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