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VESTIBULAR APPARATUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vestibular apparatus mean?
• VESTIBULAR APPARATUS (noun)
The noun VESTIBULAR APPARATUS has 1 sense:
1. organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium
Familiarity information: VESTIBULAR APPARATUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
vestibular apparatus; vestibular system
Hypernyms ("vestibular apparatus" is a kind of...):
sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)
Meronyms (parts of "vestibular apparatus"):
ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)
semicircular canal (one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium)
Context examples
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)
The inner ear is made up of the cochlea needed for hearing and the vestibular apparatus required for balance.
(Ear, NCI Thesaurus)
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