scala tympani
The division of the spiral canal of the cochlea lying on the basal side of the spiral lamina. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the scala tympani is
The division of the spiral canal of the cochlea lying on the basal side of the spiral lamina. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the scala tympani 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 tympani connects to
The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of cochlea.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the scala tympani. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001864, 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.
- contributes to morphology of: cochlea.
- located in: perilymphatic space.
Questions
Where is the scala tympani?
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 does the scala tympani connect to?
Part of: cochlea.
Is the scala tympani 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.