Definitions for otolith

otolith o·to·lith

Spelling: [oht-l-ith]
IPA: /ˈoʊt l ɪθ/

Otolith is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in otolith (hiloott).

Definitions for otolith

noun

  1. Anatomy, Zoology. a calcareous concretion in the internal ear of vertebrates.
  2. statolith (def 1).

Origin of otolith

First recorded in 1825-35; oto- + -lith

Examples for otolith

The otolith apparatus of the cat can render it no service in free descent.

These sixteen bones (with a loose bone of specialized form, the otolith, within the ear-cavity) constitute the cranium.

otolith: a little ear-bone: granules or concretions found in an otocyst.

The Leydigian or nuchal organ is supposed to be auditory and to contain an otolith.

The otolith is an oval body with its dorsal half pigmented, and its ventral half clear and highly refractive.

There are tentacles and otolith vesicles as very delicate organs of feeling, or possibly of hearing also.

In Pleurobrachia there is at first only one otolith at each corner.

The otolith however is developed from a single cell on the dorsal and right side of the brain.

Each species has its own form of otolith, but they vary much in different groups of fishes.

The dorsal half of the otolith is pigmented: the ventral half is without pigment.

Word Value for otolith
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10

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10

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