spiral ligament
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006725
A spiral thickening of the fibrous lining of the cochlear wall. Spiral ligament secures the membranous cochlear duct to the bony spiral canal of the cochlea. Its spiral ligament fibrocytes function in conjunction with the stria vascularis to mediate cochlear ion homeostasis. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_ligament https://github.com/obophenotype/mouse-anatomy-ontology/issues/71 ]
Synonyms: spiral cochlear ligament, spiral ligament of cochlear duct, spiral ligament of cochlea, ligamentum spirale ductus cochlearis
Term info
- MA:0001192
- EMAPA:35798
- MESH:D055493
- BIRNLEX:2524
- SCTID:279840005
- FMA:77834
- Wikipedia:Spiral_ligament
- UMLS:C0229477
pheno_slim
this is not classified as a ligament in FMA
UBERON:0028186
uberon
UBERON:0006725
Spiral ligament of cochlear duct
Term relations
- nonskeletal ligament
- ectoderm-derived structure
- part of some cochlear duct of membranous labyrinth
- has part some otic fibrocyte
- attached to some cochlear canal