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acoustic crest (medicine) and laminar (iou)


acoustic crest (medicine)


acoustic crest -->
ampullary crest


An elevation on the inner surface of the ampulla of each saemicircular duct; filaments of the vestibular nerve pass through the crista to reach hair cells on its surface; the hair cells are capped by the cupula, a gelatinous protein-polysaccharide mass.

Synonym: crista ampullaris, acoustic crest, transverse septum.


laminar (iou)



laminar adjective. E19.
[from LAMINA + -AR1.]
Consisting of or arranged in laminae. E19.
Physics. Of the flow of a fluid: smooth and regular, not turbulent, the direction of motion at any point remaining constant as if the fluid were moving in a series of layers of different velocity sliding over one another without mixing. L19.
b. Of a body: having a shape that tends to produce laminar flow in the adjacent fluid. M20.