Incus Definition

ĭngkəs
incudes
noun
incudes
The central one of the three small bones in the middle ear: it is shaped somewhat like an anvil.
Webster's New World
A thunderhead.
American Heritage

(meteorology) An accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

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Noun

Singular:
incus
Plural:
incudes

Origin of Incus

  • Latin incūs incūd- anvil from incūsus past participle of incūdere to forge with a hammer in- intensive pref. in–2 cūdere to beat, forge kau- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin incūs (“anvil”).

    From Wiktionary

Incus Sentence Examples

  • The malleus and incus cf the internal ear are united, and there is no transverse canal in the skull.

  • The malleus and incus of the inner ear are separate.

  • Of these Ctenodactylus and Pectinator are characterized by the union of the incus and malleus of the internal ear, the free fibula and the almost rootless cheek-teeth.

  • Thyng, who has carefully reviewed all the other theories, the balance of evidence tends to show that the quadrate has been taken up into the inner ear, where it is represented among the auditory ossicles by the incus.

  • The three middle ear bones â the ossicles â are called the malleus, the incus and the stapes.

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