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What is a crista?

What is a crista? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place.
  2. A crest.
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The crista intermedia joins the laminae superior and inferior and joins them for a short distance to the septum nasi medially.
The utricle contains a macular ending, the macula utriculi, and each semicircular canal ends in a crista.
Posterior to the formation of the crista parotica, the ventral part of the otic process splits.
The ventral aponeurosis inserts on a crista immediately below the insertion of the dorsal aponeurosis.
Near the front of the brain, in the midline, a deep sagittal groove in the dura indicates the site where the crista galli of the ethmoid bone is accommodated.
A muscular ridge, called the crista terminalis, corresponding to the sulcus terminalis on the exterior.

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