Malleus

//ˈmæl.i.əs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

    "A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion."

  2. 2
    the ossicle attached to the eardrum wordnet
  3. 3
    The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  4. 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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