Connected with the malleus is another small bone, called the incus, or anvil, which is connected with another, called the stapes, or stirrup, from its shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

I didn't see "mallet" in malleus and read Bad'n'Badder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malleus Maleficarum] Reference

K, handle of malleus applied to the internal surface of the membrana tympani.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

My first attempt to decode malleus maleficarum focused on the repeating "mal".    From Wordnik.com.  [Malleus Maleficarum] Reference

Current Music: crown me king- the imperial march (darth malleus dub)(14 gunslingers | crown me king).    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

The reptilian quadrate bone became the mammalian incus, while the articular bone became the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [What a difference a day makes. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This causes the incus to move through a shorter distance, but with greater force than the end of the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

Where the malleus joins the membrane is a small muscle whose contraction has the effect of tightening the membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

A true fossil mammal should have malleus, incus and stapes in the middle ear and a single bone that forms the lower jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In mammals, there are three bones in the middle ear, the malleus, incus and stapes also known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup.    From Wordnik.com.  [What a difference a day makes. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The tympanum contains four small delicate bones, viz. the malleus, the incus, the stapes, and the os orbiculare, joined to the incus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829] Reference

To qualify as a real fossil mammal the jaw is formed from mandible only and the other 4 bones have become the malleus and incus of the middle ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Two of the ear-bones (malleus and incus), enlarged 239 63.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference

They are the malleus, the incus and the stapes. en Español.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Caldani mentions a case with the incus and malleus deficient, and Scarpa and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Two of the bones of the ear (the malleus or hammer and the incus or anvil) enlarged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference

Behind the malleus the long process of the incus may be visible through the membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The tympanic cavity contains a chain of three movable ossicles, the malleus, incus, and stapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles] Reference

At the upper end of the handle is a white knob-like projection, the short process of the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

He was equally severe against heretics, and was called by his contemporaries "malleus hereticorum.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day] Reference

A small nodule of cartilage, cut off from the proximal end of Meckel's cartilage, becomes the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Cromwell, the malleus monachorum, was of good English family, belonging to the Cromwells of Lincolnshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference

On its anterior surface is a deeply concavo-convex facet, which articulates with the head of the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles] Reference

From there, the tympanic membrane's vibrations trigger the first of the three auditory ossicles; the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

In the fetus this is the longest process of the malleus, and is in direct continuity with the cartilage of Meckel.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles] Reference

Running upward and slightly forward from the umbo is a reddish-yellow streak produced by the manubrium of the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck] Reference

One of these pouches, the pouch of Prussak, is well-marked and lies between the neck of the malleus and the membrana flaccida.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles] Reference

Opposite the constriction the lower margin of the facet projects in the form of a process, the cog-tooth or spur of the malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles] Reference

Animals that communicate seismically often have an enlarged malleus as it also facilitates bone conducted detection of vibrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

Hidden by the bulla, and just external to the periotic bone, are the auditory ossicles, the incus, malleus, os orbiculare, and stapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

"The malleus and the incus are the remnants of bones that in our reptilian ancestors were to be found in the jaw, as I explained earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Current Mood: malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

Current Mood: darth malleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference