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Otic

Otic \O"tic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. o'y^s, 'wto`s, the ear: cf. F. otique.] Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
otic

"pertaining to the ear," from Greek otikos, from ous (genitive otos) "ear" (see ear (n.1)).

Wiktionary
otic

a. (label en anatomy) of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear

WordNet
otic

adj. of or relating to near the ear [syn: auricular]

Wikipedia
Otic

Otic means pertaining to the ear. It can refer to:

  • Otic ganglion, nerve cells in ear
  • Otic polyp, benign growth in middle ear
  • Otic capsule, another name for bony labyrinth
  • Otic drops, another name for ear drops
  • Otic notch, notch in skull of some species
  • Otic pit, developmental stage of ear
  • Otic placode, developmental stage of ear
  • Otic vesicle, developmental stage of ear

Usage examples of "otic".

And I will cheerfully expose myself to any impertinent remark which it might suggest, to assure my audience that I never heard or saw one authentic Homoeopathic name of any country in Europe, which I had ever heard mentioned before as connected with medical science by a single word or deed sufficient to make it in any degree familiar to my ears, unless Arnold of Heidelberg is the anatomist who discovered a little nervous centre, called the otic ganglion.

Middle ear bones transmit the drum vibrations to the papillae in the fluid of the otic capsule.

And he was in total ignorance of the fact that, in more senses than otic, he was the man in the middle.

The comm system squawked, and suddenly he was hearing the voices of Ric Otic and the Naboo pilots who had taken off ahead of him.

The wireless ware he had at home was the same as what he used at Net Force HQ--the latest generations of haptic gear, including optics, otics, reekers, droolers, and weathmesh--so he had full sensory capability when he went on-line.

In the Real World, Jay sat in his office at Net Force HQ, part of the almost four-hundred-acre FBI compound at Quantico, plugged into full wirelessware haptics, including top-of-the-line optics, otics, reekers, droolers, and the brand-new version of spray-on WeatherMesh, which could be set and controlled by your computer to plus-or- minus one degree Fahrenheit, and none of the Madrid afternoon was the least bit real.