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otocyst

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otocyst [′ōd·ə‚sist]
(embryology)
The auditory vesicle of vertebrate embryos.
(invertebrate zoology)
An auditory vesicle, otocell, or otidium in some invertebrates.


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[1,2] Should inner ear development be interrupted between the fourth and fifth weeks of gestation---after differentiation of the auditory placode into the otocyst, but before division of the latter into the primordium of the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals--a "common cavity" forms that has no internal architecture (figure).
 
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