Crossword-Solution: OTOCYSTS
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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.
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ZEAMCE
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eruption
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Sentences with OTOCYSTS (5)
The otocysts and eyes are formed as invaginations of ectoderm, the former behind the eyes, at the sides of the funnel.
Special to the Heteropoda is the high elaboration of the lingual ribbon, and, as an agreement with some of the opisthobranchiate Euthyneura, but as a difference from the Pectinibranchia, we find the otocysts closely attached to the cerebral ganglia.
Leydig, that the otocysts of Pectinibranchia even when lying close upon the pedal ganglion (as in fig.
Recent observations, however, make it very doubtful whether aquatic Crustacea can hear at all, in the proper sense of the term, and it has been shown that one function, at least, of the so-called otocysts is connected with the equilibration of the body.
They were formerly thought to be auditory organs, and were called "otocysts," but it appears now that it is impossible on physical grounds for these organs to be used for the perception of the waves of sound in water.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1981).