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Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.

An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

cles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.

An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.

On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear. Parotic region (Zoöl.), the space around the ears.

The auditory capsule. Owen.

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.

signating, the sphenotic bone. Sphenotic bone (Anat.), a bone on the anterior side of the auditory capsule of many fishes, and connected with, or adjoining, the sphenoid bone.

One of the auditory organs of certain medusæ; -- called also auditory tentacle.