Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sac or pouch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anat., zoology, and botany, same as
utricle . - noun The differences which are seen in it are partly due to the way in which the two cavities of the vestibule, the utriculus and sacculus, are connected together, and to the course taken by the semicircular canals which spring from the former.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under
ear .
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- noun anatomy A little
sac orbag ; autricle ; especially, a part of themembranous labyrinth of theear .
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- noun a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open
Etymologies
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Examples
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The utriculus is a warped, irregular bag, whose sections have become unrecognizable.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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The larger one is called the utriculus, and has three arched appendages, called the "semi-circular canals" (c, d, e).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In the male the Müllerian ducts atrophy, but traces of their anterior ends are represented by the appendices testis (hydatids of Morgagni), while their terminal fused portions form the utriculus in the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra (Fig. 1110, C).
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The utriculus and sacculus are in wide-open communication with each other and have almost become one.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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The primary change is the broad opening between the utriculus and the scala tympani from which results the streaming of the endolymph from the semicircular canals into the cochlea.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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The utriculus opens broadly into the scala tympani, and the nervous elements of the cochlea are degenerate.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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The ear sac, of which the chief divisions are the utriculus and the sacculus, with which the canals communicate, is not shown well in this drawing.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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The semicircular canals, the ampullae, the utriculus, and the cristae acusticae of the canals are normal in their general form and relations to one another as well as in their histological conditions (2 p. 529).
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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In not one of the ears of the twelve dancers which he studied did Kishi find the direct communication between the utriculus and the scala tympani which Rawitz described, and such differences as appeared in the organ of Corti were in the nature of slight deviations rather than marked degenerations.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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Figure 3b; through the translucent hyaline cartilage the utriculus and horizontal canal can be darkly seen.
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