Assertion: inner ear's canal | /r/CreatedBy | angular acceleration
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text: The functional components of the membranous labyrinth, a series of three interconnected perilymph-filled tubes with enlarged ends, involved in the sensations of dynamic equilibrium; the contain the cristae ampullaris which detect acceleration in the three perpendicular planes (superior, horizontal, and posterior); these accelerometers make use of hair cells similar to those on the organ of Corti, but these hair cells detect movements of the fluid in the canals caused by angular acceleration about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the canal; tiny floating particles aid the process of stimulating the hair cells as they move with the fluid; the nerve impulses thus generated are transmitted along the vestibular branch of cranial nerve eight to the CNS.