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The membranous labyrinth lies enclosed in the very hard petrous part of the temporal bone and, as the name implies, its structure is extremely complex. This may explain why our knowledge of this organ and the vestibular sensory regions within it, is not yet satisfactory.
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Lindeman, H.H. (1969). Introduction. In: Studies on the Morphology of the Sensory Regions of the Vestibular Apparatus. Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology / Ergebnisse der Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte / Revues d’anatomie et de morphologie expérimentale, vol 42/1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-24992-5_1
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