Word Meanings - OTOSTEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.

Related words: (words related to OTOSTEAL)

• OSSICLE
  One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes. (more info) 1. A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
• AUDITORY
  Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal , the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
• PLAUDITORY
  Applauding; commending.