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Definition of Periotics
1. periotic [n] - See also: periotic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Periotics
Literary usage of Periotics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"Four periotics in a somewhat water-worn condition ; from the Coralline Crag of
... Several rolled periotics of a similar type ; from the Eed Crag near ..."
2. The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh by William Turner (1912)
"Tympano-periotics retained in skull. Mandible 10 inches long, symphysis 1 inch.
... Right tympano-periotics in situ. Mandible 16i inches long, ..."
3. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"The tympanic bones are scroll-like, and are fused with the periotics. The rami
of the mandible are not united anteriorly. This sub-order includes the' ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"... consist of periotics, or petro-mastoid bones ; The petrous and mastoid portions
of The names first given, and printed in black type, are those received ..."
5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and are the most solid found in the whole of the Vertebrata. The periotics (fig.
115 more rarely found, but are equally characteristic. ..."
6. A Junior Course of Practical Zoology by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1899)
"The periotics are the bones which replace the cartilaginous capsules enclosing
the organs of hearing in the embryo. Each ossifies from three centres ..."
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