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ear

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Sense organ in vertebrates that is specialized for the detection of sound, and the maintenance of balance. Includes the outer ear and middle ear, which collect and transmit sound waves; and the inner ear, which contains the organs of balance and (except in fish) hearing. Also includes the pinna, the visible part of the outer ear, present in some mammals. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0042471 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear ]

Term info

Label

ear

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Ear.jpg

external definition

The organ of hearing and of equilibrium. [TFD][VHOG]

has related synonym

auris, auditory apparatus

homology notes

Both vertebrate and invertebrate auditory organs are thought to have evolved from primitive mechanosensors, but the nature of the ancestral structure and the evolutionary trajectories followed in distinct animal lineages remain unknown. In particular, we do not know how many types of mechanosensor existed in the protostome-deuterostome ancestor from which insects and vertebrates evolved or whether the PDA had an auditory organ.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0001690