otoconium

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

otoconium (plural otoconia)

  1. (anatomy) An otolith or statolith.