utricle

utricle
noun Etymology: Latin utriculus, diminutive of uter leather bag Date: 1731 any of various small pouches or saccate parts of an animal or plant: as a. the part of the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear into which the semicircular canals open b. a small usually indehiscent one-seeded fruit with thin membranous pericarp • utricular adjective

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  • Utricle — ( pouch ) can refer to: * Utricle (ear) * Prostatic utricle * a fruit type, similar to achene, found in beet and dock …   Wikipedia

  • Utricle — U tri*cle, n. [L. utriculus a little womb, a calycle, dim. of uter, utris, a bag or bottle made of an animal s hide: cf. F. utricule.] [1913 Webster] 1. A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) A …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • utricle — [yoo trik′yə ləs] n. pl. utriculi [yo͞o trik′yəlī΄yo͞o′tri kəl] n. [< Fr or L: Fr utricule < L utriculus, little bag or bottle, dim. of uter, leather bag, wineskin, prob. via Etr < Gr hydria, water bag, jug < hydor, WATER] a small sac …   English World dictionary

  • utricle — SYN: utriculus [TA], sacculus communis. prostatic u. [TA] a minute pouch in the prostate that opens on the summit of the seminal colliculus, the analog of the uterus and vagina in the female, being the remains of the fused caudal ends of the …   Medical dictionary

  • utricle — noun a) One of two otolith organs located in the vertebrate inner ear (the other being the saccule). b) The prostatic utricle …   Wiktionary

  • utricle — utriculus; n. 1) the larger of the two membranous sacs within the vestibule of the ear: it forms part of the membranous labyrinth. It is filled with fluid (endolymph) and contains a macula. This responds to gravity and relays information to the… …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • Utricle (ear) — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = utriculus GraySubject = 232 GrayPage = 1051 Caption = illustration of otolith organs showing detail of utricle, otoconia, endolymph, cupula, macula, hair cell filaments, and saccular nerve MapCaption =… …   Wikipedia

  • utricle — utriculus …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • utricle — n. [L. dim. uter, bag] A small bag or bladder …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • utricle — /yooh tri keuhl/, n. 1. a small sac or baglike body, as an air filled cavity in a seaweed. 2. Bot. a thin bladderlike pericarp or seed vessel. 3. Anat. the larger of two sacs in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear. Cf. saccule (def. 1).… …   Universalium

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