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
The sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors...
- bony labyrinth
Cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that contains the membranous lab...
Humor
- endolymph
The bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.
- perilymph
The bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth...
Also contains
- cochlea
The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations...
- neuroepithelium
Epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve en...
- semicircular canal
One of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles...
- labyrinthine artery
An artery that is a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrint...
- labyrinthine vein
Veins that drain the inner ear.