The organ of Corti (or spiral organ) is the organ in the inner ear found only in mammals that contains auditory sensory cells, or "hair cells."
The organ was named after the Italian anatomist Marquis Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822–1876), who conducted microscopic research of the mammalian auditory system.
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