Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or serving as a vestibule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a vestibule, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
vestibule in a building. - adjective Of or pertaining to a
vestibule (body cavity).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the sense of equilibrium
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Examples
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These tests are designed to spot inner-ear problems called vestibular dysfunction, which can throw off your sense of balance and make you dizzy.
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These tests are designed to spot inner-ear problems (called vestibular dysfunction), which can throw off your sense of balance and make you dizzy.
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Other training sessions involve what's called a vestibular chair.
Going to Space? First Stop: Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City By David Kushner 2008
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Robert Bárány dedicated the most important part of his scientific research to a study of the inner ear, particularly to that part of it which is innervated by the nervus vestibularis and is, therefore, known as the vestibular apparatus.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation 1967
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For all vertebrates, from the fish upward, these little organs in the vestibule represented a sense organ governing orientation in space, something which may be referred to as the vestibular sense.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The useless relic of it passes through the wall of the petrous bone in the shape of a narrow canal, and is called the vestibular aqueduct.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Acoustic neuromas, also known as vestibular schwannomas, are non-cancerous, slow-growing tumors that form on the main nerve running from the inner ear to the brain.
unknown title 2011
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Acoustic neuromas, also known as vestibular schwannomas, are non-cancerous, slow-growing tumors that form on the main nerve running from the inner ear to the brain.
unknown title 2011
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Acoustic neuromas, also known as vestibular schwannomas, are non-cancerous, slow-growing tumors that form on the main nerve running from the inner ear to the brain.
unknown title 2011
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Those in the study who used cell phones for 11 years or more were no more likely to develop these tumors, known as vestibular schwannomas, than those who used cell phones for a shorter period or not at all.
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