title: Cupula
text: # Cupula
  
  A cupula is a small, inverted cup or dome-shaped cap over a structure, including:
  
  * Ampullary cupula, a structure in the vestibular system, providing the sense of spatial orientation
  * Cochlear cupula, a structure in the cochlea
  * Cupula of the pleura, related to the lungs
  * The cervical parietal pleura in the thorax
  * A layer in the otolith organs
  * The cupula optica, or optic cup, in embryological development of the eye
  * Cup-like structure fitted over the eye during electrophysiology study
  * Suprapleural membrane
  