How to Use semicircular canal in a Sentence
semicircular canal
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But a tiny semicircular canal in the skull suggests was markedly different from gibbons, reports Dvorsky.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2017-08-10
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That system operates as the body’s balance organ; its three semicircular canals are filled with fluid and tiny hair cells that sense in which direction the body is moving.
—Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 2018-08-15
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Evolution of locomotion in Anthropoidea: the semicircular canal evidence.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2012-07-06
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