utricle of membranous labyrinth

The larger of the two otolith organs in the vestibule. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the utricle of membranous labyrinth is

The larger of the two otolith organs in the vestibule. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the utricle of membranous labyrinth is

It sits in the head, within the nervous and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the utricle of membranous labyrinth connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of otolith organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the utricle of membranous labyrinth. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as membranous labyrinth utricle, utricle, utriculus and utriculus (labyrinthus vestibularis). Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001853, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: otolith organ.
• contains: epithelium of utricle and macula of utricle of membranous labyrinth.
• connects: utricle duct and utriculosaccular duct.
• contributes to morphology of: macula of utricle of membranous labyrinth.

Questions

Where is the utricle of membranous labyrinth?

It sits in the head, within the nervous and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the utricle of membranous labyrinth connect to?

A kind of: otolith organ.

Is the utricle of membranous labyrinth the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.