Sentit | A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium. |
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Sinònim | orella interna |
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Parts | caragol, còclea | The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti |
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conducte semicircular | One of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another |
endolimfa, endolinfa | The bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear |
laberint ossi | cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that contains the membranous labyrinth |
neuroepiteli, neuroepitelio | epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings |
perilimfa | The bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear |
General | òrgan sensorial, receptor, receptor sensitiu | An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
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Anglès | inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth |
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Espanyol | laberinto, oído interno |
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