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Malleus
//ˈmæl.i.əs// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
"A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion."
- 2 the ossicle attached to the eardrum wordnet
- 3 The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
- 4 One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.
"[…] in the typical mastax of a Brachionus there are two hammer-like bodies (mallei), which work on a kind of split anvil (incus); […] each malleus consists of an upper part or head (uncus) and a lower or handle (manubrium);"
Etymology
From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.
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