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 roughly 30,000 hair cells in the utricle and 16,000 hair cells in the saccule lie below a gelatinous layer, with their stereocilia projecting into the gelatin.
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
In animal cells the former is wanting, the membrane representing the utricle.
From Was Man Created? by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Mott
