utricle

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The utricle and saccule measure head orientation: their calcium carbonate crystals shift when the head is tilted, thereby activating hair cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Balaban and his colleagues venture that a directed energy source could have damaged the exquisitely sensitive utricle and saccule.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 20, 2018

In those individuals, Balaban says, further tests implicated damage to the ear's otolith organs, the utricle and the saccule, key to sensing gravity.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 20, 2018

The vestibule is the portion for equilibrium, composed of the utricle, saccule, and the three semicircular canals.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

After the spores have become ripe, the free point of the utricle bursts, and the spores are scattered to a great distance by a mechanism which we will not here further describe.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)