utricle

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The utricle and saccule respond to acceleration in a straight line, such as gravity.

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

Balance is coordinated through the vestibular system, the nerves of which are composed of axons from the vestibular ganglion that carries information from the utricle, saccule, and semicircular canals.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

But the problem is even more complex when we take into account the fact that impulses are transmitted simultaneously to the utricle and to the semicircular canals communicating with it by five openings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various