Malleus vs Malleolos - What's the difference?
malleus | malleolos |
(anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
* 2010 , Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology , 8th edition, page 576
(ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes ).
(zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.
* 1884 , Hudson, C.T., Memoirs: An Attempt to re-classify the Rotifers'' in ''Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1884 s2-24 , pages
As nouns the difference between malleus and malleolos
is that malleus is (anatomy) the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear while malleolos is .malleus
English
(wikipedia malleus)Noun
(mallei)- A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
- The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus' (mal?e-us; "hammer"); the incus (ing?kus; "anvil"); and the stapes (sta?p?z; "stirrup"). The "handle" of the ' malleus is secured to the eardrum, and the base of the stapes fits into the oval window.
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- [...] in the typical mastax of a Brachionus there are two hammer-like bodies (mallei'), which work on a kind of split anvil (incus); [...] each ' malleus consists of an upper part or head (uncus) and a lower or handle (manubrium);
Synonyms
* (bone of the middle ear) hammer * (tripus) malleus Weberi, tripusHypernyms
* (bone of the middle ear) auditory ossicle, auditory bone, otic bone, ossicleDerived terms
* malleal * mallearReferences
*The Century Dictionary Online*
Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister*
A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN: 1113194219, 9781113194213, p. 174----