endolymph
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Their results confirmed David’s suspicions: The warm-blooded animals had less viscous endolymph and smaller and thinner canal shapes.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
David suspected that endolymph viscosity and semicircular canal size were related, and that both could reflect endothermy.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
Cold-blooded animals had thicker endolymph and larger, thicker canals.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
In the wake of the destruction, potassium ions build up in the inner ear fluid called endolymph, pulling in more liquid by osmosis.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2018
The whole of the labyrinth is membranous, and contains a fluid, the endolymph; between the membranous wall of the labyrinth and the enclosing bone is a space containing the perilymph.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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