sense organ,
sensory receptor,
receptor an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
auditory apparatus all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears
neuroepithelium epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings
membranous labyrinth the sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors and the cochlea; contained within the bony labyrinth
endolymph the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
perilymph the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
semicircular canal one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium
cochlea the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
