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Inner ear

noun

A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium. Synonyms: internal ear, labyrinth.

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"Inner ear" Quotes from Famous Books

... sound-waves on to the membrane of the tympanum, or drum, to which is attached the first of a series of ossicles, or small bones. The last of these presses against an opening in the inner ear, a cavity surrounded by the bones of the head. Inside the inner ear is a watery fluid, P, called perilymph ("surrounding water"), immersed in which is a membranic envelope, M, containing endolymph ("inside water"), also full of fluid. Into this fluid project E E E, the terminations of the ...

— How it Works • Archibald Williams

... (the cutting of briers along a fence), arrested by the temptation to throw down his hook and go. The sacred arguments were on his side. Without choice or search of his they clamored and battered at his inner ear—those commands of the Gospels, the long reverberations of that absolute Voice, bidding irresolute workaday disciples leave the plough in the furrow, leave whatsoever task was impending or duty uppermost to the living or the dead, and ...

— The Reign of Law - A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields • James Lane Allen

Words linked to "Inner ear" : sense organ, artery of the labyrinth, receptor, auditory apparatus, internal auditory artery, cochlea, labyrinth, endolymph, perilymph, osseous labyrinth, sensory receptor, neuroepithelium, internal ear, bony labyrinth, labyrinthine artery, internal auditory vein, membranous labyrinth, semicircular canal, labyrinthine vein