Malleus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The hammer-shaped bone that is the outermost of the three small bones in the mammalian middle ear. Also called hammer.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
  • n. The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  • n. One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of far.
  • n. One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
  • n. A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anatomy, the proximal element of Meckel's cartilage, in any way distinguished from the rest of the mandibular arch.
  • n. In ichthyology, one of the Weberian ossicles which form a chain between the air-bladder and the auditory apparatus in the skull of plectospondylous and nematognathous fishes. It is homologous with the hemapophysis of the third one of the coalesced anterior vertebræ.
  • n. In rotifers, one of the paired calcareous structures within the pharynx.
  • n. [capitalized] In conchology, a genus of pearl-oysters of the family Avieulidæ, founded by Lamarck in 1799; the hammer-shells.
  • n. Same as war-hammer.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the ossicle attached to the eardrum
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    auditory ossicle   
    Variant
    mallei    far    mastax   
    Form
    malleal    mallear   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    malleus Weberi   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    monaural    microphonic    otic    alicui    changeableness   
     
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