utricle

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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

Head position is sensed by the utricle and saccule, whereas head movement is sensed by the semicircular canals.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Calyx small and bladder-like, with a toothed or torn margin, at length spongy and narrowly wing-bordered, enclosing the flattened thin utricle.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa