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Inner ear   /ˈɪnər ɪr/   Listen
Inner ear

noun
1.
A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium.  Synonyms: internal ear, labyrinth.






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"Inner ear" Quotes from Famous Books



... it, I doubt if the Russians would have believed he was a spy if they'd caught him, unless they really did believe he was telepathic. A physical examination would show immediately that he was born without eardrums and that the inner ear bones are fused. They wouldn't try to make a man talk if an examination showed that he really ...
— The Foreign Hand Tie • Gordon Randall Garrett

... in this prophecy, but even as she did so, cuddling her face against his own, a low-down, unworthy spook, whose existence in her he must never suspect, said audibly in her inner ear, "Much he knows about it!" Betty did not forget to remind George of the letter he was to write to Miss Eliot about taking over the agency of Mrs. Brewster-Smith's cottages. In the composition of this letter George washed ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... how tragic! Like all great men working in the grip of a unifying idea, Rodin modified the old technique of sculpture so that it would serve him as plastically as does sound a musical composer. A deep lover of music, his inner ear may dictate the vibrating rhythms of his forms—his marbles are ever musical; not "frozen music" as Goethe said of Gothic architecture, but silent swooning music. This gate is a Frieze of Paris, as deeply significant of modern ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... truth. Our Lord Himself protested that His teachings were incomplete, that there was much left unsaid which would be said by the Comforter, as even He could not, because the Spirit of God speaks in the inner shrine of the soul, uttering to the inner ear, truths which no voice could speak or ear receive. Let us always remember therefore that the Gospels must be completed by the Epistles, and that the Spirit who spake in the Son, spake also in those whom the Son had prepared to be His mouthpieces ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer



Words linked to "Inner ear" :   membranous labyrinth, internal ear, internal auditory vein, auditory apparatus, cochlea, internal auditory artery, endolymph, labyrinthine artery, sensory receptor, labyrinthine vein, receptor, neuroepithelium, bony labyrinth, osseous labyrinth, perilymph, sense organ, artery of the labyrinth, semicircular canal



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