AUTHOR=Fritzsch Bernd , Elliott Karen L. TITLE=Auditory Nomenclature: Combining Name Recognition With Anatomical Description JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroanatomy VOLUME=12 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroanatomy/articles/10.3389/fnana.2018.00099 DOI=10.3389/fnana.2018.00099 ISSN=1662-5129 ABSTRACT=
The inner ear and its two subsystems, the vestibular and the auditory system, exemplify how the identification of distinct cellular or anatomical elements ahead of elucidating their function, leads to a medley of anatomically defined and recognition oriented names that confused generations of students. Past attempts to clarify this unyielding nomenclature had incomplete success, as they could not yet generate an explanatory nomenclature. Building on these past efforts, we propose a somewhat revised nomenclature that keeps most of the past nomenclature as proposed and follows a simple rule: Anatomical and explanatory terms are combined followed, in brackets, by the name of the discoverer (see Table