Otic pit

Otic pit
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.
Latin fovea otica
Gray's subject #228 1029
Precursor auditory plate
Code TE E5.15.2.0.0.0.5

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]).

References

  1. ^ hednk-010Embryology at UNC

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.


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