otoconium

Meaning

Noun

An otolith or statolith.

Origin

A Latinised adaptation (taking the form of a Latin second-declension neuter noun in the nominative case, as if from a *ōtoconium) of the French otoconie (whence otocony, otokony), itself formed from the Ancient Greek οὖς ("ot-; ear") + κονία.

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