bony semicircular canals
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semicircular canals — plural noun a system of three fluid filled bony channels in the inner ear, involved in sensing and maintaining balance … English new terms dictionary
Semicircular canal — Exterior of labyrinth … Wikipedia
semicircular duct — n any of the three loop shaped membranous inner tubular parts of the semicircular canals that are about one fourth the diameter of the corresponding outer bony canals, that communicate at each end with the utricle, and that have near one end an… … Medical dictionary
Bony part of pharyngotympanic tube — View of the inner wall of the tympanum External and middle ear, op … Wikipedia
semicircular canal — noun one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium • Hypernyms: ↑sense organ, ↑sensory receptor, ↑receptor • Part Holonyms: ↑inner ear, ↑internal ear, ↑labyrinth, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Bony labyrinth — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = labyrinthus osseus. GraySubject = 232 GrayPage = 1047 Captio2 = Interior of right osseous labyrinth. MapPos = Bony Labyrinth MapCaption = Right osseous labyrinth. Lateral view. System = Precursor = MeshName … Wikipedia
Posterior semicircular canal — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = canalis semicircularis posterior GraySubject = 232 GrayPage = 1049 Caption = Interior of right osseous labyrinth. Caption2 = MapPos = Posterior semicircular canal System = Artery = stylomastoid artery… … Wikipedia
canal — A duct or channel; a tubular structure. SEE ALSO: c., duct. SYN: canalis [TA]. [L. canalis] abdominal c. SYN: inguinal c.. accessory c. a channel leading from the root … Medical dictionary
limb — 1. An extremity; a member; an arm or leg. SYN: member. 2. A segment of any jointed structure. SEE ALSO: leg, crus. [A.S. lim] ampullary membranous limbs of semicircular ducts [TA] the dilated ends of the three semicircular ducts, each of which… … Medical dictionary
Oreopithecus — Temporal range: Miocene Oreopithecus bambolii fossil Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
