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Meanings of anvil in anglès

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Metalworking tool; also used as a percussion instrument.

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          The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes.

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                Examples for "incus"
                1
                Caldani mentions a case with the incus and malleus deficient, and Scarpa and Torreau quote instances of deficient ossicles.
                Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
                2
                This causes the incus to move through a shorter distance, but with greater force than the end of the malleus.
                Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
                3
                Such an arrangement would permit its action on the joint formed by Meckel's cartilage and the incus of the middle ear.
                Pubmed
                4
                He is known in the history of anatomical discovery as the first who described the two tympanal bones, termed malleus and incus.
                The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                5
                We'd seen that the auditory canals were well defined, that the tiny ossicles-themaleus, incus, and stapes-werepresent in the middle ear.
                Bones Are Forever
                Usage of anvil in anglès
                1
                The risk of being crushed between hammer and anvil was too great.
                Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
                2
                There were 20 casts in all, including the anvil and anvil block.
                Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
                3
                In a short time, the hammer rang upon the anvil as before.
                Diary in America, Series One
                4
                The blade of a jeweled sword was sunk deeply into the anvil.
                Myths and Legends of All Nations / Famous Stories from the Greek...
                5
                And they gave me what tools I was missing, including that anvil.
                Brisingr
                6
                Just as before, he was chained to the anvil and left alone.
                Shadows Return
                7
                Thus to other noises was added that of the hammer on anvil.
                The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial For...
                8
                On the anvil the end of the white-hot bar was immediately laid.
                The Iron Horse
                9
                He heard a blacksmith hammering at his anvil, and the gnawing ceased.
                Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
                10
                They manufacture on the anvil very fine kris daggers, knives, lance-heads, etc.
                The Philippine Islands / A Political, Geographical, Ethnographic...
                11
                I think he swallowed the anvil afterward, if my memory serves me.
                Roughing It
                12
                She stepped inside the forge and seated herself on the Dane's anvil.
                The Ship of Stars
                13
                Go, then, and strike your great blows upon the anvil of life.
                Jeanne of the Marshes
                14
                Being loaded with sin, he went to the bottom like an anvil.
                Life on the Mississippi
                15
                A huge fire roared on the hearth, beside which was an anvil.
                Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
                16
                Stand firm and immoveable, as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
                The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testamen...
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