Vestibular apparatus

Vestibular apparatus
The vestibule and three semicircular canals of the inner ear. Like an internal carpenter’s level, these structures work with the brain to sense, maintain, and regain balance and a sense of where the body and its parts are positioned in space.

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vestibular apparatus n vestibular system

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the structures in the internal ear concerned with reception and transduction of stimuli of equilibrium; they include the semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule.

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