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ossicle
[ os-i-kuhl ]
noun
- a small bone.
ossicle
/ ɒˈsɪkjʊlə; ˈɒsɪkəl /
noun
- a small bone, esp one of those in the middle ear
ossicle
/ ŏs′ĭ-kəl /
- A small bone, especially one of the three located in the middle ear (the incus, malleus, and stapes) that transmit sound vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear.
Derived Forms
- ossicular, adjective
Other Words From
- os·sic·u·lar [o-, sik, -y, uh, -ler], os·sic·u·late [o-, sik, -y, uh, -lit], adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ossicle1
Example Sentences
In the ossicles, the atomic pattern and the diamondlike lattice align in a way that compensates for calcite’s intrinsic weakness.
Li’s team is studying live knobby starfish, surveying the chemistry of how ossicles form.
The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.
A vertical section of an ossicle presents exactly the same features as the horizontal section now described.
There is no tympanic cavity or auditory ossicle in relation to the ear.
The parietal sagittal arc, including the region where there was probably a supra-lambdoid ossicle, was about 140 mm.
The next two phalanges were separate, and sometimes kept widely apart from each other by the introduction of a special ossicle.
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