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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and ... the inner ear responsible for our sense of balance: the ...

There two major organs in the inner ear – the cochlea or the shell shaped hearing organ and the semicircular canals or the balance organs. The semicircular canals work to co-ordinate with the ...

Inside your inner ear are three small structures called semicircular canals. They help you sense motion and keep your balance. BPPV happens when a tiny crystal of calcium breaks free from the wall ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, the skulls have become damaged over time and previous work on them revealed that the crucial and delicate semicircular canals in the inner ear were not well preserved.

The inner ear is crucial for maintaining balance and a steady head posture. It consists of three semicircular canals containing fluid and sensory hair cells that pick up motion in the head.

In contrast, the researchers in this study used a novel approach that focused on studying the inner ear. "The semicircular canals, located in the skull between our brain and the external ear ...