1) Auditory ossicle 2) Auditory system 3) Bone known as the stirrup 4) Bone of the middle ear 5) Ear bone 6) Middle ear bone 7) Smallest human bone 8) Stirrup
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The stapes z is a bone in the middle ear of humans and other mammals which is involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. The stirrup-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The stapes receives vibrations from the incus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the oval window, medially....
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• (n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
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(from the article `mammal`) ...form a series of levers that serve mechanically to increase the amplitude of sound waves reaching the tympanic membrane, or eardrum, produced as ... ...muscles. The tympanic membrane bulges inward, unlike the usually outward-bulging membrane of reptiles and birds. The elements in the ossicular ... ...an...
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One of three ossicles of the middle ear. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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(sta´pēz) the innermost of the three auditory ossicles of the middle ear. Called also stirrup.
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Sta'pes noun [ Late Latin , a stirrup.]
(Anat.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See
Illust. of
Ear .
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One of the bones in the cavity of the ear which has a resemblance to a stirrup.
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A bone in the middle ear
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Type: Term Pronunciation: stā′pēz, stā′pē-dēz Definitions: 1. The smallest of the three auditory ossicles; its base, or footpiece, fits into the vestibular (oval) window, whereas its head is articulated with the lenticular process of the long limb of the incus. Synonyms: stirrup
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Stapes: A stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear. The stapes transmits sound vibrations from the incus, another little bone in the middle ear, to the oval window adjacent to the inner ear. The stapes is the smallest bone in the body. Pronounced stay-peas. Stapes, a Late Latin word meaning stirrup, cannot have been a classical Latin term because the ...
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(sta;pez) The innermost of the auditory ossicles that fits against the oval window of the inner ear; also called the stirrup.
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[
n] - the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
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stapes, stirrup.
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stirrup noun the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
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Latin = stirrup; adjective - stapedial, stapedius.
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the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also calledCf.(def. 1),See diag. under
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