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An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.

An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.

The internal ear. See Note under Ear.

A pattern or design representing a maze, - often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.

An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.

The internal ear. See Note under Ear.

A pattern or design representing a maze, - often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.

The internal ear; the essential part of the organ of hearing. It consists of an osseous and a membranous portion.

A series of passages winding in and out of each other; a maze; a difficulty which cannot be solved; as, a labyrinth of doubt; the winding tubes of the inner ear.

1. The internal ear, comprising the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea; see labyrinthus. 2. Any group of communicating cavities, as in each lateral mass of the ethmoid bone, labyrinthus ethmoidalis. 3. Pars convoluta of a cortical lobule of the kidney; the portion of kidney cortex intervening between the pyramids of Ferrein; it contains the Malpighian corpuscles and convoluted tubules. 4. A group of upright test-tubes terminating below in a base of communicating, alternately U- and П-shaped tubes, used for isolating motile from non-motile organisms in culture, or a motile from a less motile organism (as the typhoid from the colon bacillus) the former travelling faster and farther through the tubes than the latter (see cut).

Hollowed grooves on external ear.

(orig.) A building consisting of halls connected by intricate passages: a place full of inextricable windings: an inexplicable difficulty: the cavities of the internal ear.

Place full of intricate windings; maze.

A confusing network of paths or passages; maze. labyrinthian; labyrinthine.

A structure, as that formed by Daedalos at Crete, composed of intricate winding passages, which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; a maze; an inexplicable difficulty; the cavities of the internal ear; a series of troughs conveying water for washing pulverized ore in a stamping-mill.

A place full of intricacies or inextricable windings; a maze; an inexplicable difficulty; the internal ear, from its complex structure.

The complex internal ear, bony or membranous; the portions of kidney cortex with the uriniferous tubules; the tracheal tympanum.

A place, full of turnings, the exit of which is not easily discoverable. Anatomists have given this name to the aggregate of parts, constituting the internal ear, Labyrinthus auris intimae, Iatima pars organi auditus, Labyrinthic cavity of the ear. The Labyrinth is situate between the tympanum and meatus auditorius internus. It is composed of several cavities, which communicate with each other in the dried bone; as the vestibule, cochlea, semicircular canals, etc. It is lined by periosteum, and also by a pulpy membrane, constituting the membranous labyrinth, on which the auditory nerve is regularly dispersed. This membrane forms two sacks in the vestibule, called sacculus vestibule and sacculus, respectively, which resemble in shape that of the bony cavities containing them. Each sac contains calcareous matter, constituting the Otoliths and Otoconies. When the sac is laid open, upon the upper and outer part, a partition appears, partaking of the nature of the sac, and called by Meckel, Septum vestibuli nervoso-membranaceum. Labyrinth is also applied to the lateral portions of the ethmoid bone, which are formed of large irregular cells.

The internal ear, made up of the vestibule, cochlea, and canals.

An intricate arrangement of communicating passages; the cavities of the internal ear.

n. [Greek] An edifice or place full of intricacies or formed with winding passages;— an ornamental maze or wilderness in gardens;— a complicated part in the cavity of the oar figuratively, entanglement; complication; inexplicable difficulty.