Malleus Definition

mălē-əs
mallei
noun
mallei
The largest and outermost of the three small bones in the middle ear of mammals, shaped somewhat like a hammer.
Webster's New World

(ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).

Wiktionary

(zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

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Noun

Singular:
malleus
Plural:
mallei

Origin of Malleus

  • Latin hammer melə- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet")

    From Wiktionary

Malleus Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Auditory ment in the crocodile, and with the ", chain " of Chicken, X 6 processus folii of the mammalian diameters; lateral and basal malleus, it follows that the whole views.

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

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

  • Partly from superiority to the narrowness of his age, and partly in the interest of his struggle with the Papacy, this Malleus ecclesiae Romanae drew to his court those savants whose pursuits were discouraged by the church, and especially students in the forbidden lore of the Arabians.

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