(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:52:50

Sca"la (?), n.; pl. Scalae (#). [L., a ladder.]

1. Surg.

A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

2. Anat.

A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

 

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