Tuesday, April 26, 2011

BODY PARTS NAMED AFTER ITALIANS

 

ORGAN OF CORTI

The organ of hearing in the middle ear. Alfonso Corti (1822—78) was an Italian nobleman who studied medicine and anatomy in Vienna, writing his thesis on the cardiovascular system of reptiles. He published his findings on the inner ear in 1851, the year that he inherited estates and titles from his father and retired from scientific research.

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