English > inner ear: 1 sense > noun 1, body| Meaning | A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium. |
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| Synonyms | internal ear, labyrinth |
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| Part of | auditory apparatus | All of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears |
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| Parts | bony labyrinth, osseous labyrinth | cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that contains the membranous labyrinth |
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| cochlea | 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 |
| endolymph | The bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear |
| labyrinthine artery, artery of the labyrinth, internal auditory artery | An artery that is a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrinth |
| labyrinthine vein, internal auditory vein | veins that drain the inner ear |
| membranous labyrinth | The sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors and the cochlea |
| neuroepithelium | epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings |
| perilymph | The bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear |
| semicircular canal | One of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another |
| Broader | sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor | 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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| Spanish | laberinto, oído interno |
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| Catalan | laberint, orella interna |
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