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stapes
[ stey-peez ]
noun
, Anatomy.
, plural sta·pes, sta·pe·des [st, uh, -, pee, -deez].
- the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear.
stapes
/ stā′pēz /
, Plural stapes stā′pĭ-dēz′
- The roughly stirrup-shaped bone that is the innermost of the three small bones (ossicles) of the middle ear.
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Derived Forms
- stapedial, adjective
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Other Words From
- sta·pe·di·al [st, uh, -, pee, -dee-, uh, l], adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stapes1
C17: via New Latin from Medieval Latin, perhaps a variant of staffa, stapeda stirrup, influenced in form by Latin stāre to stand + pēs a foot
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Example Sentences
The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.
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Even then it may be anatomically impossible to see the stapes.
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In the latter (Ambystoma) the nerve is beneath, and in the former (Rana) above, the stapes.
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Sometimes the term columella is used to include the whole ossicular chain,—the columella together with the stapes.
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The stapes is very much like a reptilian columella, having a single crus with no perforation.
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