The water, almost every drop of it, was captured by spiral canals that wound around the shaft, in parallel to the stairway.

Spiral canals of some Elphididae.

He designed a model of a cochlea (the spiral canal of the inner ear), and with it demonstrated how sound moves along the cochlea.

From the spiral canal of the modiolus numerous canals pass outward through the osseous spiral lamina as far as its free edge.

The founts gushed harder as they descended-water pressure, Malenfant thought-and soon the spiral canals were filled with bubbling, frothing liquid, which took away some of the staleness of the still air of the well.

Rosenthal's canal or the spiral canal of the cochlea is a section of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear that is approximately 30 mm long and makes 2 turns about the modiolus.

His voice traveled like a drug dripped down the spiraling canals of their ears until they had forgotten everything, until they had forgotten their own names, until they turned and offered themselves up to him, their bodies sweet and soft as marzipan.