Sentence examples for otic from inspiring English sources

In the oval window, which occupies the entire lateral surface of the otic capsule, is a stapes.

Within the otic capsule are the usual labyrinthine endings, including an auditory papilla.

The auditory papilla lies in a path between the oval window and an opening (the round window) in the posterior wall of the otic capsule.

A columellar system connects the tympanic membrane to the oval window of the otic capsule, as in other reptiles.

Hence the result of a continuous sound wave is a surging back and forth of the fluids in the otic capsule and the pericapsular recess at the same frequency as that of the sound.

Neurons of this group send axons out of the medulla in the ninth cranial (glossopharyngeal) nerve and to the otic ganglion.

Since the inner ear and nerves of equilibrium and hearing come from the otic vesicle, separate from the gill structure, in most cases of deformed or absent outer ear the hearing nerve is normal.

The columella ends in an expansion, the stapes, which makes contact with the fluids of the inner-ear (otic) capsule through an opening, the oval window.

A second opening in the otic capsule, the round window, is covered by a thin, flexible membrane; it is bounded externally by a fluid-filled space that can expand into the air-filled cavity of the middle ear.

Leading inward from the middle of this plate is a two-element ossicular chain consisting of a peripheral extracolumella and a medial columella the expanded end (the stapes) of which lies in the oval window of the otic capsule.

In all higher vertebrates, the most anterior element in the axial musculature is the set of six eye muscles derived from the three pre-otic somites (those anterior to the ear region of the embryo).