Definitions for otoliths

otoliths o·to·lith

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

Otoliths is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in otoliths (hiloostt).

Definitions for otoliths

noun

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

Origin of otoliths

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

Examples for otoliths

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for otoliths
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10

Words with friends

10

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