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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bone of the ear; one of the bones composing the otocrane, otic capsule, or periotic mass, inclosing the organ of hearing.
- noun One of the auditory ossicles or bonelets of the cavity of the middle ear; an ossiculum auditus, as the malleus, incus, or stapes. See first cut under
ear . - noun A hard concretion in the cavity of the inner ear; an ear-stone, otosteon, or otolith (which see).
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Examples
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I would expect ear-bone evolution to involve developmental regulatory changes.
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Otolith: a little ear-bone: granules or concretions found in an otocyst.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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It is probable, too, that ear-bones vary somewhat in form and thickness in the same species; this is certainly true in the case of the ear-bone of fishes, of which I have many specimens, among which there are several varieties of form and size.
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The ear-bone of the Balena Mystictus, the common whale of the coast, in my possession, measured, rather diagnoally over the thick convoluted part, is 5½ inches long; the greatest thickness is 3 inches and 3 tenths; the depth or height of the convoluted part is 3 inches; greatest height measured to the top of the thin convolution 4 inches and 4 tenths.
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This conclusion is founded upon the probability, that this ear-bone and certain thick heavy ribs of a whale, often found in the miocene deposits, belonged to this species.
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Page 203 possible hereafter to determine to which ear-bone belonged to the Murfreesborough species.
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