The semicircular canals are three tiny tubes located in the inner ear. Their primary job is to regulate balance and sense head position. The three semicircular canals—the anterior, lateral ...

Along with your otolith organs, your inner ear also contains three fluid-filled semicircular canals. When you tilt your head, the fluid in these canals bends the hairlike cells along their inner ...

namely a part of the ear called the semicircular canal system, provides a more conclusive answer,” says Ricardo Araújo, a paleontologist at the University of Lisbon’s Institute of Plasma and ...

But also contained in the innermost third of the ear, and working in far more mysterious ways, is a labyrinth of three nonhearing organs. The best known is a set of three semicircular canals.

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and ... the inner ear responsible for our sense of balance: the semicircular canals. It is widely accepted that results obtained from ...

People usually discover they have it in their 40s. The canal that sits highest in your ear, the superior semicircular canal, is covered by bone. When you have SSCD, this bone has a hole or very ...

Here's the background — To understand ape-human evolution, scientists honed in on a portion of the bony inner ear, known as the semicircular canals. Semicircular canals are tubes in the inner ...

BPPV occurs when calcium carbonate crystals move from the membranous labyrinth to the semicircular canals in the ear. Although this condition is not life threatening, it can cause significant ...

But Ricardo Araújo at the University of Lisbon in Portugal and his colleagues suspected that the bony labyrinths containing the semicircular canals in the inner ear might provide a more precise ...