periotic
Americanadjective
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surrounding the ear.
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noting or pertaining to certain bones or bony elements that form or help to form a protective capsule for the internal ear.
adjective
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of or relating to the structures situated around the internal ear
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situated around the ear
Etymology
Origin of periotic
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All of the 20 or so animals Yaipén has examined showed middle-ear hemorrhage and fracture of the ear's periotic bone, lung lesions and bubbles in the blood.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2012
Take the head of a rabbit, the brain of which has been hardened by spirit, and carefully remove cranium; be particularly careful in picking away the periotic bone, on account of the flocculi of cerebellum.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In the lower forms it is a hollow membranous structure, embedded in a mass of cartilage, the otic capsule; in the mammal the latter is entirely ossified, to form the periotic bone.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Periotic, per-i-ō′tik, adj. surrounding the inner ear.—n. a periotic bone.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
One centre of ossification in the frog forming pro-otic; several fuse together and form periotic of the dog.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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