otosis (otosis)

[NL., Negro English is an ear-language altogether, a language built up on what the late Profe or Haldeman of Pennsylvania called otosis , an error of ear, a mishearing, similar to that by which Siradyhu-d-daula, a viceroy of Bengal, became in the newspapers of the day Sir Roger Dowler. Trans. Amer. Philol. A ., XVI., App., p. xxx i. otosteon (ō-tos'te-on), n.; pl. otostea (-a). [NL., ear-stone; an otolith; a hard concretion in the cavity of the labyrinth of the ear, as in the cod and many other fishes: not to be confounded with any of the bones proper of the ear.-2. An ear-bone proper; an otic or periotic bone. =Syn. See otolith.