ossicle

Definitions

Examples

• The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.

• A vertical section of an ossicle presents exactly the same features as the horizontal section now described.

• There is no tympanic cavity or auditory ossicle in relation to the ear.

• The parietal sagittal arc, including the region where there was probably a supra-lambdoid ossicle, was about 140 mm.

• The next two phalanges were separate, and sometimes kept widely apart from each other by the introduction of a special ossicle.