internal ear

Removal can cause unnecessary complications to the middle and internal ear.

They have an internal ear that enables them to detect sounds at low frequencies.

Asymmetry has not been reported to extend to the middle or internal ear of the owl.

The intensity of the inward emotion had affected the external through the internal ear.

Snakes lack external ears, though they do have internal ears, and respond to the movement of the flute, not the actual noise.

It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear.

All the contents of the vestibule are lumped together as the internal ear, but only the saccule portion is concerned with hearing.

The internal ear (organ of Corti) and taste buds also contain sustentacular cells.

His main interest was the middle and internal ear, including the muscles of the external ear and the pharyngeal muscles.

The auditory pit, also known as the otic pit, is the first rudiment of the internal ear.

The stuctures of the internal ears are most often affected by the blast wave, with perforated ear drums the most common injury.

He threw up his strongest mind-shield as a precaution, but he would have been better off figuring out a way to use internal ear muffs instead.

This is the way fish hear, with two entirely internal ears each containing three pairs of calcium carbonate stones called otoliths, ear stones.

She was miles away, her internal ears full of the roar of the Formula One engines as they screamed their way around the seventy testing, bumpy laps.

He is known as a supporter of Galen and extended the knowledge of the internal ear by rediscovering and describing correctly the tube that bears his name.

Rather than consider the possibility that some composers include popular materials to satisfy their internal ear, Mr. Kriesberg hunts for whiffs of opportunism and pandering.

Because the statocyst is located in the internal ear, it is more commonly, though less appropriately, called the otocyst (oh'toh-sist; "ear pouch" G).

He added much to what was known before about the internal ear and described in detail the tympanum and its relations to the osseous ring in which it is situated.

Archeologists have found fossil grunion otoliths (tiny, bonelike particles or stony platelike structures in the internal ear of lower vertebrates) at various Indian campsites.

The ectodermal derivative abnormalities can affect the epidermis including mammary, pituitary and sweat glands, as well as hairs, dental enamel, nails, lens, and the internal ear.

Literature is written by and for two senses: a sort of internal ear, quick to perceive 'unheard melodies'; and the eye, which directs the pen and deciphers the printed phrase.

THE INTERNAL EAR On the other side of the oval window covered by the stapes is the vestibule referred to on page 248.

It is a reniform (kidney-shaped) opening leading from the tympanic cavity into the vestibule of the internal ear; its long diameter is horizontal, and its convex border is upward.

In 1861, he published his first results on a new technique based on this knowledge, to treat internal ear diseases by insufflating the middle ear through the Eustachian tube, which obviated the need of its catheterization.

THE VESTIBULAR SENSE The acoustic nerve, which leads from the cochlea, has a branch leading to the other half of the contents of the internal ear, the utricle and its outgrowths, introduced on page 248.