utricle

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The utricle and saccule measure head orientation: their calcium carbonate crystals shift when the head is tilted, thereby activating hair cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There are five vestibular receptor organs in the inner ear: the utricle, the saccule, and three semicircular canals.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

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

Fruit an ovoid 1-seeded utricle, 2–3-beaked at the apex, mostly longer than the calyx, opening transversely or sometimes bursting irregularly.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa