ear

UBERON:0001690 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

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. — UBERON

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Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Auditory/Hearing system > Ear 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	9	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

sense organ UBERON:0000020
structure with developmental contribution from neural crest UBERON:0010314
Auditory/Hearing system habitatmech:GOLD.b842078e17

Also called

auditory apparatus — UBERON
auris — UBERON

Provenance

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