statocyst
Meanings
noun
- An organ of balance found in some aquatic invertebrates, consisting of a sac-like structure containing a statolith and numerous innervated setae. Ancestral to vertebrate otolith (their organ of hearing and balance).
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Etymology
From stato- + cyst.
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