Otic pit
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The auditory pit, also known as the otic pit, is the first rudiment of the internal ear. It appears shortly after that of the eye, in the form of a patch of thickened ectoderm, the auditory plate, over the region of the hind-brain. The auditory plate becomes depressed and converted into the auditory pit (or otic pit[1]).
| Otic pit | |
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 Section through the head of a human embryo, at the beginning of the fourth week, in the region of the hind-brain. | |
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| Precursor | Auditory plate |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | fovea otica |
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References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
- ^ hednk-010—Embryo Images at University of North Carolina
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