The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vestibular \Ves*tib"u*lar\, a. Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819, in reference to the inner ear part, from vestibule + -ar.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a vestibule in a building. 2 Of or pertaining to a vestibule (gloss: body cavity). 3 (context dentistry English) Of or pertaining to the surface of a tooth that is directed outward toward the vestibule of the mouth, including the buccal and labial surfaces, and opposite the lingual (or oral) surface.
WordNet
adj. relating to the sense of equilibrium
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "vestibular".
The upper part of the cochlea, which leads from the stapes and the oval window, consists of two tubes, the vestibular canal and the cochlear canal, separated by a very thin membrane.
This gal moved like a martial arts expert, so I figured a vestibular disruptor like oopsy was the best choice.
However, where the proprioceptive senses tell us the position of one part of the body with relation to another, the vestibular sense tells us the position of the body as a whole with respect to its environment, especially with regard to the direction of the pull of gravity.
So long as our vestibular and proprioceptive systems are intact, we are perfectly stable with our eyes closed.
Its symptoms include unstable blood pressure and hypertension, unstable temperature, vomiting spasms, profuse sweating, impairment of vestibular function, a marked tendency to develop erythematous skin rashes, lacrimation deficit .
Now there was nothing, there was not even the opposite pressure of his seatbelt on his stomach, the vestibular apparatus in his middle ear was stubbornly insisting that he was falling, his stomach was floating, twisting, turning, fluid was churning, sloshing, lapping at the base of his esophagus, his stomach muscles were clenching, now slowly, now faster, his mouth began to water, and.
Okay, the vestibular nerve, the tempen tympani, the ampulae, utricle and saccule are all parts of which organ?
Proprioception, the vestibular sense, vision: all the senses by which the body knows itself had gone.
They never get motion-sick-something about re-wiring the vestibular system-and their muscles maintain tone with an exercise regimen of barely fifteen minutes a day, max-nothing like the hours you and I would have to put in during a long stint in null-gee.