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Auditory Nomenclature: Combining Name Recognition With Anatomical Description
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Auditory Nomenclature: Combining Name Recognition With Anatomical Description

Bernd Fritzsch and Karen L Elliott
Frontiers in neuroanatomy, Vol.12, pp.99-99
11/23/2018
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2018.00099
PMCID: PMC6265345
PMID: 30532697
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Abstract

The inner ear and its two subsystems, the vestibular and the auditory system, exemplify how the identification of distinct cellular or anatomical elements ahead of elucidating their function, leads to a medley of anatomically defined and recognition oriented names that confused generations of students. Past attempts to clarify this unyielding nomenclature had incomplete success, as they could not yet generate an explanatory nomenclature. Building on these past efforts, we propose a somewhat revised nomenclature that keeps most of the past nomenclature as proposed and follows a simple rule: Anatomical and explanatory terms are combined followed, in brackets, by the name of the discoverer (see Table 1 ). For example, the “organ of Corti” will turn into the spiral auditory organ (of Corti). This revised nomenclature build as much as possible on existing terms that have explanatory value while keeping the recognition of discoverers alive to allow a transition for those used to the eponyms. Once implements, the proposed terminology should help future generations in learning the structure-function correlates of the ear more easily. To facilitate future understanding, leading genetic identifiers for a given structure have been added wherever possible.
 auditory nuclei development sensory epithelia sensory neurons Neuroanatomy ear

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