internal ear

American  

noun

1. the inner portion of the ear, involved in hearing and balance, consisting of a bony labyrinth that is composed of a vestibule, semicircular canals, and a cochlea and that encloses a membranous labyrinth.

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internal ear British  

noun

1. Also called: inner ear, labyrinth. the part of the ear that consists of the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals

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internal ear

This design feature is inspired by the multiple synaptic connections between hair cells in the internal ear and neurons, providing a backup should one pathway fail.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024

The reader has an internal ear: so must the writer.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2017

Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear."

From Time Magazine Archive

This bump has a membrane stretched over it, and communicates with a small cavity, which is the internal ear.

From Rambles of a Naturalist by John D. Godman

Nearly all adventitious deafness is caused by some disease of infancy or childhood attacking the middle or internal ear, a large part being of infectious character.

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Harry Best