utricle
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The utricle and saccule respond to acceleration in a straight line, such as gravity.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
There are five vestibular receptor organs in the inner ear: the utricle, the saccule, and three semicircular canals.
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
When the pericarp is thin, and appears like a bladder surrounding the seed, the achene is termed a utricle, as in Amarantaceae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
