The low status of smell in Western culture is reflected in our language: colloquial terms for ânoseâ, for example, are almost all derogatory, or at the very least disrespectful (schnozzle, conk, hooter, snoot, snout, etc.) â and large or distinctive noses are considered ugly.
Ribosomes are organelles composed of ribosomal proteins (riboproteins) and ribonucleic acids (ribonucleoproteins). The word ribosome is made from taking â ribo â from ribonucleic acid and adding it to â soma â, the latin word for body. Ribosomes are bound by a membrane but they are not membranous.
The functional components of the membranous labyrinth involved in the sensations of static and dynamic equilibrium are a system of thin-walled intercommunicating tubes and ducts situated within the petrous part of the temporal bone at the base of the skull; there are five vestibular structures, each containing a specialized mechanoreceptor, a maculae, within the utricle and saccule, and a cristae within the ampullae of the superior, horizontal, and posterior semicircular canals.