But in common parlance, people seem to refer to them as crystals (although I've never heard the word "vibrations" around it, that's definitely new age stuff). T

But in common parlance, people seem to refer to them as crystals (although I've never heard the word "vibrations" around it, that's definitely new age stuff). That Wikipedia article even uses the word "crystal" as well: > Otoliths (also called statoliths) are agglutinated crystals or crystals precipitated around a nucleus, with well defined morphology and together all may be termed endolymphatic infillings