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Middle-ear bone
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incus
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The anvil or incus is a bone in the middle ear . The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The incus receives vibrations from the malleus , to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the stapes , medially. The ...
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n. 1 (context skeleton English) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear. 2 (context meteorology English) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
WordNet
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n. the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes [syn: anvil ] [also: incudes (pl)]
Usage examples of incus.
Shaheed," Beckmann returned inci sively, leaving no room for Retledge to interrupt him, "is time.
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