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Malleus

Malleus \Mal"le*us\, n.; pl. Mallei. [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.]

  1. (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.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
malleus

ear bone, 1660s, from Latin malleus "a hammer" (see mallet). So called for its shape.

Wiktionary
malleus

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
malleus
  1. n. the ossicle attached to the eardrum [syn: hammer]

  2. [also: mallei (pl)]

Wikipedia
Malleus

The malleus or hammer is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear which connects with the incus and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum. The word is Latin for hammer or mallet. It transmits the sound vibrations from the eardrum to the incus.

Malleus (disambiguation)

Malleus (Latin for "hammer") may refer to:

  • Malleus, a bone in the middle ear;
  • Malleus (disease), a bacterial infection
  • Malleus (mollusc), a genus of bivalves.
Malleus (bivalve)

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, but the hinge line is extremely long and is at nearly a right angle to the rest of the valves, which grow ventrally. The viscera of the organism are arranged in an oval-shaped patch near the umbones of the valves.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.318529 1 - Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Malleidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg|Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.318526 2 - Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Malleidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg|Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.318521 - Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Malleidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg|Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.318540 1 - Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Malleidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg|Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.