Crossword-Solution: OTOLITH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Otolith | n. | Alt. of Otolite |
We have 7 clues for the answer “OTOLITH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CALCIFIED mass in the utricle and saccule of the inner ear | 1 answer |
| EAR (inner), calcified mass in the utricle and saccule of the | 1 answer |
| INNER ear, calcified mass in the utricle and saccule of the | 1 answer |
| More scientific name for an ear-stone | 1 answer |
| UTRICLE and saccule of the inner ear, small calcified mass in the | 1 answer |
| Ear stone. | 2 answers |
| Ear Bone | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with OTOLITH (5)
The two groups of sense cells in the vestibule--the otolith organs--were formerly supposed to be the sense organ for noise; but noise now appears to be a compound of tones, and its organ, therefore, the cochlea.
The otolith organs in the vestibule are probably excited, not by rotary movements, but by sudden startings and stoppings of rectilinear motion, as in an elevator; and also by the pull of gravity when the head is held in any position.
The sensory epithelium is at the anterior end of the vesicle forming a macula acustica, and in the cavity is a single otolith, partly calcareous and partly organic except in _Eledone_, in which it is entirely organic.
Where the sac is completely closed it generally contains no solid particles, but in a few Macrura a single otolith secreted by the walls of the sac is present.
The sense-organ of the aboral pole is complex, and lies under a dome of fused cilia shaped like an inverted bell-jar; it consists of an otolith, formed of numerous calcareous spheroids, which is supported on four plates of fused cilia termed balancers, but is otherwise free.