UTRICULI Antonyms

• (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

• provide (a city) with a canal

• 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

• the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear

• a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

• a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

• (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

• a periodical that is published by a special interest group

• wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

• a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

• a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth)

• curved into a half circle

• relating to the sense of equilibrium

• An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.

• A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith.

• A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

• A rather large spot or blotch of color.

• In planetary geology, an unusually dark area on the surface of a planet or moon.

• A small particle, comprised mainly of calcium carbonate, found in the inner ear of vertebrates, being part of the balance sense.