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vestibular sacs

vestibular sacs

two sacs in the inner ear—the utricle and saccule—that, together with the semicircular canals, comprise the vestibular apparatus (see also vestibular system). The vestibular sacs respond both to gravity to encode information about the head’s orientation and to linear acceleration.

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