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The ossicle attached to the eardrum
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malleus
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Malleus is a genus of hammer oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Malleidae , the hammer oysters. This genus includes 27 known species. Characteristic of this genus is the unusual "hammer-shaped" outline of the valves. The shells are nearly equivalved ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ear bone, 1660s, from Latin malleus "a hammer" (see mallet ). So called for its shape.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malleus \Mal"le*us\, n.; pl. Mallei . [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.] (Anat.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. 2 (context ichthyology English) The tripus (''ossicle in cypriniform fishes''). 3 (context zoology English) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers. ...
WordNet
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n. the ossicle attached to the eardrum [syn: hammer ] [also: mallei (pl)]
Usage examples of malleus.
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The Malleus Maulers are highly regarded, from what I have heard, and we may be walking into a trap.
Shaoki, then by their hirelings, the heavy lifter unit the Malleus Maulers, was chance, the typical Shaoki strategic stupidity, or the knowledge the Khelat were coming.
Weibes im Hexenhammer, Helsingfors, 1903, has set out to show that the very pronounced misogyny which is apparent in the Malleus Maleficarum can be traced to the Summa of S.
The bridge of bones, being pivoted at one point to the walls of the middle ear, forms a lever in which the malleus is the long arm, and the incus and stapes the short arm, their ratio being about that of three to two.
The earliest edition of the Malleus in the British museum reads: Nam die dnico sotularia iuuenu fungia seu pinguedie proci vt moris e p restauratoe fieri pungut et sic vbi ecclesia intrat tadiu malefice exire eccias non poterut quo adusq: exploratores aut exeunt aut illis licentia sub expssione ut sup exeundi peedat.
He peered at some of the titles: Demonolatry, Liber Poenitalis, Discoverie of Witchcraft, Malleus Maleficarum— and so on through French, German, and other languages of which he could not even recognise the alphabet.
He peered at some of the titles: Demonolatry, Liber Poenitalis, Discoverie of Witchcraft, Malleus Maleficarum - and so on through French, German, and other languages of which he could not even recognise the alphabet.
In a letter dated November 27, 1538 Salazar advised the inquisitioners not to believe everything they read in Malleus Maleficarum, even if the authors write about it as something they themselves have seen and investigated (Henningson p.