Cupula
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A cupula is a small, inverted cup or dome-shaped cap over a structure, including:
- Ampullary cupula
- Cochlear cupula
- A structure surrounding hair cell receptors sensitive to hydrodynamic flow in fish.
- The cervical pleura in the thorax.
- A layer in the otolith organs.
[edit] See also
The Wiktionary entry for cupule (a small non-inverted cup), which appears as the Latinized form cupula in botanical descriptions.
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