The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes.
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Examples for "anvil "
Examples for "anvil "
1 The risk of being crushed between hammer and anvil was too great.
2 There were 20 casts in all, including the anvil and anvil block.
3 In a short time, the hammer rang upon the anvil as before.
4 The blade of a jeweled sword was sunk deeply into the anvil .
5 And they gave me what tools I was missing, including that anvil .
1 Caldani mentions a case with the incus and malleus deficient, and Scarpa and Torreau quote instances of deficient ossicles.
2 This causes the incus to move through a shorter distance, but with greater force than the end of the malleus.
3 Such an arrangement would permit its action on the joint formed by Meckel's cartilage and the incus of the middle ear.
4 He is known in the history of anatomical discovery as the first who described the two tympanal bones, termed malleus and incus .
5 We'd seen that the auditory canals were well defined, that the tiny ossicles-themaleus, incus , and stapes-werepresent in the middle ear.
6 Deeper, past the secret passage of the tympanic membrane, through the drum, sit like atolls the malleus, the incus , and the stapes.
7 He enumerates the tunics and humours of the eye, and gives an account of the internal ear, in which he notices the malleus and incus .
8 The booth was plastered in band flyers and posters; Garrett's eyes flicked over unfamiliar names: Incus .
9 "On the Representatives of the Malleus and the Incus of Mammalia in the Other Vertebrata" "Proceedings of the Zoological Society" (1869) 391-407.
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