Meaning of malleus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
2. hammer (a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding)
3. The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
4. One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.
5. auction house
6. hammer
7. first-person singular present indicative of martillar

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Examples

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

“The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup"). The "handle" of the malleus is secured to the eardrum, and the base of the stapes fits into the oval window.”

“[…] 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);”

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