Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Posterior and otic; of or pertaining to the opisthotic: correlated with epiotic, proötic, and pterotic. See
otic . - noun The postero-inferior petrosal bone; one of the otic elements, the posterior and inferior ossification of the periotic capsule, which contains the essential auditory apparatus, forming a part of the petrosal or petromastoid bone. See cuts under
Crocodilia and Esox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
inferior andposterior of the threeelements forming theperiotic bone .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek behind + ear.
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Examples
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The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon.
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A second (opisthotic) appears at the promontory on the medial wall of the tympanic cavity and surrounds the fenestra cochleæ; it forms the floor of the tympanic cavity and vestibule, surrounds the carotid canal, invests the lateral and lower part of the cochlea, and spreads medially below the internal acoustic meatus.
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