sense organ
ear
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Ear.jpg
auris
MAT:0000138
auditory apparatus
VHOG:0000330
MIAA:0000138
UMLS:C0013443
AAO:0011014
NCIT:C12394
EHDAA2:0000423
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.
GAID:62
auricular
MESH:D004423
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]
UMLS:C0521421
FMA:52780
XAO:0000189
BIRNLEX:1062
EV:0100353
MA:0000236
galen:Ear
BTO:0000368
OpenCyc:Mx4rvViXS5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjL05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
EHDAA:502
EFO:0000826
EMAPA:16193
UBERON:0001690
CALOHA:TS-1165
The organ of hearing and of equilibrium. [TFD][VHOG]
uberon
structure with developmental contribution from neural crest