scala media

The division of the spiral canal of the cochlea that contains the organ of Corti (the neuroepithelial receptor organ for hearing). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the scala media is

The division of the spiral canal of the cochlea that contains the organ of Corti (the neuroepithelial receptor organ for hearing). The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the scala media is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and sensory systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the scala media connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of cochlea.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the scala media. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as cochlear duct. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002295, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: cochlea.
A kind of: foramen of skull and perilymphatic channel.
Adjacent to: basilar membrane of cochlea and vestibular membrane of cochlear duct.
contributes to morphology of: cochlea.
contains: endolymphatic space.
located in: spiral organ of cochlea.

Questions

Where is the scala media?

What does the scala media connect to?

Part of: cochlea.

Is the scala media the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.