label: otic placode
label_lc: otic placode
description: "Primordium of the ear epithelium before it hollows into the otic vesicle, present beside the hindbrain rudiment in the mid-segmentation period. (Also see Anatomical Atlas entry for <a href='http://zfin.org/zf_info/anatomy/dict/ear/ear.html'>ear</a> by T. Whitfield.)"