Usage examples (22)

• Osselet: = ossicle; q.v. ossicle: a small nodule of chitin resembling a bone.
• The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.
• There's little point discussing the minutiae of ossicle evolution if you reject that reptiles and mammals share a common ancestor.
• Because in doing so it strikes again and again on the second bone, this first ossicle is called the matteus (mal'ee-us; "hammer" L).