otic

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Compare Sheet 9, Figure III The shaded part in 4 is the -otic capsule- [tympanum].

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or located near the ear; auricular.

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  • His quix-otic write-in candidacy gave a voice to those who worried that SFWA was stuck in publishing's past and who were uncomfortable with what they perceived as the culture of the organization. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • The midbrain hindbrain boundary (mhb) expression of pax2 is short and wide in the morphants. pax2 expression at the optic stalk and the otic capsules is also increased in the morphants. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Scale bar: 250 µm. hb, hindbrain; dd; dorsal diencephalon; t, telencephalon; r3, rhombomere 3; r5, rhombomere 5; fmb, forebrain-midbrain boundary; os, optic stalk; mhb, midbrain-hindbrain boundary; oc, otic capsule; sn, spinal chord neurons. rpl11 deficiency leads to misregulated expression of transcription factors —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Knockdown of Fgfr1 also results in shorter tethering cilia in the otic vesicle and shorter motile cilia in the pronephric ducts. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • Sales of otic / nasal products grew 22.7 percent to $83.9 million primarily due to sales growth of Surgical sales rose 18.0 percent, or 13.7 percent on a constant currency basis, to $691.3 million. —  Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
 

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  1. Greek ōtikos, from ous, ōt-, ear; see ous- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =P. otique, from Greek ὠτικός, of the ear, from οὐ̄τ- (ὠτ-), car: see ear.
 

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