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Otolithic membrane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The otolithic membrane is a gelatinous membrane located in the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear, and plays an essential role in the brain's interpretation of equilibrium. Both the saccular macu...
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Otolith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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One of many minute calcareous particles found in the inner ear of vertebrates and in the statocysts of many invertebrates. Also called statolith. ...
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a calcareous concretion in the inner ear of a vertebrate or in the otocyst of an invertebrate that is especially conspicuous in many bony fishes where it ...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on otolithic membrane (anatomy), ...to alter the rate of the nerve impulses that they are constantly sending via the vestibular nerve fibres to the brain stem. Covering the entire macula is a delicate acellular structure, the otolithic, or statolithic, membrane. ... CREATE MY otolithic me...
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Both pairs of maculae are stimulated by shearing forces between the otolithic membrane and the cilia of the hair cells beneath it (Figure 10B). The otolithic membrane is covered with a mass of minute crystals of calcite (otoconia), which add to the membrane’s weight and increase the shearing forces set up in response...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about otolithic. otolithic. Information about otolithic in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from otolithic)
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Ibsch M; Anken RH; ... Inner ear otolith formation in fish is supposed to be performed by the molecular release of proteinacious precursor material from the sensory epithelia, followed by an undirected and diffuse precipitation of calcium carbonate (which is mainly responsible for ... The pathway of calcium into the endolymph,
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