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S vs Incus - What's the difference?

s | incus |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun incus is

(skeleton) a small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    incus

    English

    (wikipedia incus)

    Noun

    (incudes)
  • (skeleton) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
  • * 2010 , Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology , 8th edition, page 576
    • 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").
  • (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

    • Synonyms

    * (bone in the middle ear) anvil * (cloud) anvil, thunderhead

    Related terms

    * incudal

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