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

The utricle and saccule respond to acceleration in a straight line, such as gravity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

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

During the development of these organs, the protoplasm of the utricle which contains them offers at first completely normal characteristics, and disappears entirely by degrees as they increase.

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