Receptors of the vestibular apparatus

Receptors of the vestibular apparatus

What are the five receptors of the vestibular apparatus, and what do they sense? 

Three semicircular canals that are oriented 90 degrees to each other sense rotational acceleration in all three planes.

One horizontally oriented utricle and one vertically oriented saccule sense linear acceleration.

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