VESTIBULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vestibular mean? 

• VESTIBULAR (adjective)
  The adjective VESTIBULAR has 1 sense:

1. relating to the sense of equilibrium

  Familiarity information: VESTIBULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESTIBULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to the sense of equilibrium

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

vestibular sense (a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head)

Derivation:

vestibule (any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina))

 Context examples 

One of the four vestibular nuclei situated on the floor and lateral wall of the fourth ventricle that receives inputs from the vestibular nerve.

(Lateral Vestibular Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

Mechanoreceptors located in the organ of Corti that are sensitive to auditory stimuli and in the vestibular apparatus that are sensitive to movement of the head.

(Hair Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Jerk nystagmus has a slow phase in one direction followed by a corrective fast phase in the opposite direction, and is usually caused by central or peripheral vestibular dysfunction.

(Nystagmus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The vestibular nerve carries information from the labyrinths of the inner ear to the vestibular nuclei of the brainstem.

(Murine Vestibulocochlear Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

A thin layer of tissue that forms the anterior wall of the cochlear duct, which separates it from the vestibular canal.

(Membrane of Reissner, NCI Thesaurus)

The inner ear is made up of the cochlea needed for hearing and the vestibular apparatus required for balance.

(Ear, NCI Thesaurus)

The eighth cranial nerve composed of the acoustic nerve and the vestibular nerve.

(Murine Vestibulocochlear Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)