Reissner Anat.
(ˈraɪsnə(r))
The name of Ernst Reissner (1824–78), German anatomist, used in the possessive or with of to designate a thin vestibular membrane of the internal ear, separating the scala vestibuli from the central duct of the cochlea.
| 1872 [see scala]. 1945 McNally & Stuart in C. & C. L. Jackson Dis. Nose, Throat, & Ear iii. 366 (caption) Gross dilatation of the scala media has occurred with displacement of Reissner's membrane on to the wall of the scala vestibuli. 1974 D. & M. Webster Compar, Vertebr. Morphol. x. 229 The scala media is separated from the scala vestibuli by a thin, epithelial structure, Reissner's membrane. |