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n. A small bone, especially one of the three bones of the middle ear.

n. A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.

n. Bone-like joint or plate, especially:

n. A little bone.

n. One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.

n. A small bone or bonelet.

n. A small hard nodule of chitin or some substance resembling bone.

n. Also ossicule, ossiculum.

n. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear

"There's little point discussing the minutiae of ossicle evolution if you reject that reptiles and mammals share a common ancestor."

os    bone   

ossicles of audition    auditory ossicles    vertebral ossicle    tarsal ossicle    marginal ossicles    cardiac ossicle    radial ossicle    ambulacral ossicle    dermal ossicle    weberian ossicles   

auditory ossicle   

ambulacral ossicle    Andernach's ossicles    intercalcar ossicles    cardiac ossicle    episternal ossicles    epactal ossicles    carpal ossicle   

ossicular chain    bonelet    auditory ossicle    auditory bone   

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