n :  a calcareous concretion in the internal ear of a vertebrate or in the otocyst of an invertebrate that is esp. conspicuous in many bony fishes where it forms a hard body and in most of the higher vertebrates where it is represented by a mass of small calcareous otoconia - called also statolith  oto*lith*ic adj 
 
 
 
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