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o·to·lith (

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n.

One of many minute calcareous particles found in the inner ear of vertebrates and in the statocysts of many invertebrates. Also called statolith.

oto·lithic adj.

otolith

a stonelike concretion in the inner ear of some vertebrates, as the whale.

See also: Stones

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