Labyrinth

Of sense organ and auditory apparatus.   May also be referred to as inner ear and internal ear.

A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium.

This concept's ID is @1~29083

Structure

  • membranous labyrinth 2 facts

    The sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors...

  • bony labyrinth 0 facts

    Cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that contains the membranous lab...

Humor

  • endolymph 0 facts

    The bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.

  • perilymph 0 facts

    The bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth...

Also contains

  • cochlea 3 facts

    The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations...

  • neuroepithelium 0 facts

    Epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve en...

  • semicircular canal 0 facts

    One of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles...

  • labyrinthine artery 0 facts

    An artery that is a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrint...

  • labyrinthine vein 0 facts

    Veins that drain the inner ear.