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    VESTIBULAR APPARATUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibriumplay

    Synonyms:

    vestibular apparatus; vestibular system

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("vestibular apparatus" is a kind of...):

    sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)

    Meronyms (parts of "vestibular apparatus"):

    ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)

    semicircular canal (one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium)

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