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SEMICIRCULAR CANAL
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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:
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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