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VESTIBULAR SYSTEM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vestibular system mean?
• VESTIBULAR SYSTEM (noun)
The noun VESTIBULAR SYSTEM has 1 sense:
1. organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium
Familiarity information: VESTIBULAR SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
vestibular apparatus; vestibular system
Hypernyms ("vestibular system" is a kind of...):
sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)
Meronyms (parts of "vestibular system"):
ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)
semicircular canal (one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium)
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