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
Example Sentences
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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
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The periotic and tympanic are welded together, but not with the squamosal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Tympanic bone not welded with the periotic, which is usually only attached to the rest of the skull by ligament.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Hidden by the bulla, and just external to the periotic bone, are the auditory ossicles, the incus, malleus, os orbiculare, and stapes.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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