bodily structures

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• Vestibular system — A system in the body that is responsible for maintaining balance, posture, and the body s orientation in space. This system also regulates locomotion and other movements and keeps objects in visual focus as the body moves. The vestibular system… …   Medical dictionary

• clitter — v. i. to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers. Syn: stridulate. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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• stridulate — intransitive verb ( lated; lating) Etymology: back formation from stridulation, from French, high pitched sound, from Latin stridulus shrill Date: 1838 to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures used especially… …   New Collegiate Dictionary