SEMICIRCULAR CANAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("semicircular canal" is a kind of...):

receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)

Holonyms ("semicircular canal" is a part of...):

inner ear; internal ear; labyrinth (a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium)

vestibular apparatus; vestibular system (organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium)

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