ZFIN Phenotype Statement: hyomandibula fused with inner ear, abnormal

Phenotype:	hyomandibula fused with inner ear, abnormal
Note:	This statement combines anatomy and/or ontology terms with phenotype quality terms to create a complete phenotype (EQ) statement. For detailed information on individual terms, click the hyperlinked term name.

Name:	hyomandibula
Synonyms:	hyomandibular
Definition:	The hyomandibula is the large, dorsal-most member of the hyoid arch. It begins ossifying in the dorsal edge of the hyosymplectic cartilage near the hyomandibular foramen (4.6 mm NL). Ossification spreads through the cartilage, and sheets of membrane bone form off the cartilage model anteriorly and posteriorly (6.6 mm). In the adult, the hyomandibula has cartilage-capped anterior and posterior articulating heads that meet the sphenotic-prootic fossa and the pterotic fossa, respectively, in synovial joints. A posterior knob of bone develops, also capped in cartilage, and it forms a synovial joint with the opercle.
Ontology:	Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000672]

Name:	fused with
Synonyms:	coalesced, fused, fused to, joined with, merged with
Definition:	A structural quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being merged with another entity.
Ontology:	Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0000642]

Name:	inner ear
Synonyms:	ear, otic capsule, otocyst
Definition:	The auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) organ of the fish, equivalent to the inner ear of amniotes. (See Anatomical Atlas entry for ear by T. Whitfield.)
Ontology:	Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000217]