semicircular canal

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   one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium

   Broadersense organ

   Part ofinner earvestibular apparatus

Questions about semicircular canal

What does semicircular canal mean?

semicircular canal means "one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium".

Is semicircular canal a common word?

semicircular canal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.