Meaning of malleus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hammer, mallet
   declension-2, masculine
2. a disease of animals
   declension-2, masculine
3. the malleus, a small bone in the middle ear
   New-Latin, declension-2, masculine

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Examples

“[…] haud aliter quam cum spectante iuvenca lactentis vituli dextra libratus ab aure”

[…] just as when the young suckling calf spies by its right ear the danger poised to crash its resounding hammer blow.

“sinistram manum misit ad clavum et dexteram ad fabrorum malleos […]”

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer […]

“Quod si febris interna fuerit, non facile animal dormiet, et cotidie deterior fiet, interdum furunculos in dorso vel in lateribus habebit: scias eum a morbo, de quo superius disputatum est, maleo teneri.”

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“Chorda tympani—four auditory ossicles, 267—malleus—incus—subrotund oval ossicle—stapes […]”

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