a. [f. name of E. H. Weber (1795–1833), a German anatomist + -IAN.] Weberian corpuscle or organ, a tubular vesicle in the prostatic portion of the urethra. Weberian ossicles, a chain of small bones between the ear and the air-bladder in certain fishes; Weberian apparatus, the set of structures, including the ossicles, which connect the air-bladder with the ear.
1849–52. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. II. 1415/2. The Weberian organ or corpuscle.
1889. Amer. Naturalist, May, 427. Hypophthalmus possesses an air bladder connected with the auditory organ by intervention of a Weberian apparatus, formed of parts of the anterior vertebræ.
1889. Proc. Roy. Soc., 20 June, 309. The Air-bladder and Weberian Ossicles in the Siluridæ.
