MALLEUS

Malleus

The malleus or hammer is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear which connects with the incus and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum. The word is Latin for hammer.

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malleus

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 tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  3. One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.


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