otic capsule

otic capsule
otic capsule n a mesenchymal shell around the auditory vesicle that becomes cartilaginous and bony and develops into the petrous portion of the sphenoid bone

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the cup-shaped cartilage in the head of an embryo that later develops into the bony labyrinth of the ear.

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the skeletal element enclosing the mechanism of the internal ear. In the human embryo, it develops as cartilage at various ossification centers and becomes completely bony and unified at about the twenty-third week of fetal life.

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