malleus

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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