cysticule
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cysticule (plural cysticules)
- (anatomy) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
- 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
- The vestibule is divided into three compartments, - the 'alveus communis' […] ; the sac […] and the cysticule
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“cysticule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.