See Also: Corti's ganglion(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Corti(dictionary)
Corti's cells(medicine)
Corti's pillars(medicine)
Corti's organ(medicine)
Corti's membrane(medicine)
Corti's tunnel(medicine)
Corti's canal(medicine)
Corti's arch(medicine)

Intermittent cramp (medicine) and Corti's ganglion (medicine)


Intermittent cramp (medicine)


intermittent cramp -->
tetany


1. Hyperexcitability of nerves and muscles due to decrease in concentration of extracellular ionised calcium, which may be associated with such conditions as parathyroid hypofunction, vitamin D deficiency and alkalosis or result from ingestion of alkaline salts, it is characterised by carpopedal spasm, muscular twitching and cramps, laryngospasm with inspiratory stridor, hyperreflexia and choreiform movements.

2. Tetanus.


Corti's ganglion (medicine)


Corti's ganglion -->
spiral ganglion of cochlea


An elongated ganglion of bipolar sensory nerve cell bodies on the cochlear part of the vestibulocochlear nerve in the spiral canal of the modiolus; each ganglion cell gives rise to a peripheral process that passes between the layers of the bony spiral lamina to the organ of Corti, and a central axon that enters the hindbrain as a component of the inferior (cochlear) root of the eighth nerve.

Synonym: ganglion spirale cochleae, auditory ganglion, cochlear ganglion, Corti's ganglion, spiral cochlear ganglion.