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Definition of Periotic
1. a. Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.
Definition of Periotic
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear. ¹
2. Noun. A bone in the internal ear. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Periotic
1. surrounding the ear [adj]
Medical Definition of Periotic
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Literary usage of Periotic
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1. The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh by William Turner (1912)
"The two cornua of the ring are fused with the periotic, and the longest diameter is
... Continuous with the periotic is an ovoid projection which occupies a ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"This is the tympanic element, and it will be useful to study with especial
attention the characters of this bone, its relations to the periotic, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia by William Henry Flower (1885)
"The periotic is a rounded, very dense bone, characterised as usual by having ...
The tympanic and periotic bones are separated along their inner margin by a ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"... new attachment to the periotic region of the skull in front of the fenestra
ovalis (Anura). The Anura always possess a sacral vertebra (sometimes ..."
5. Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Henry Huxley (1864)
"In Echidna and in Orycteropus the periotic, the squamosal, and the tympanic remain
perfectly distinct for a long time, if not throughout life. ..."
6. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"which becomes applied to the outer surface of the periotic. Between the occipital
and parietal bones, below and behind the squamosal, are the tympanic and ..."
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