incus
pronunciation
How to pronounce incus in British English:
UK ['ɪŋkəs]
How to pronounce incus in American English:
US ['ɪŋkəs]
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- Noun:
- the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
Word Origin
- incus (n.)
- ear bone, 1660s, from Latin incus "anvil," from incudere "to forge with a hammer." So called by Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564).
Example
- 1. During evolution becomes the incus bone of the inner ear of mammals .
- 2. 3d Ct can vividly demonstrate the shape and spatial relationships of malleus and incus .
- 3. Various types of ossicular injury may occur : incudostapedial or incudomalleolar joint separation , dislocation of the incus , dislocation of the malleoincudal complex , stapediovestibular dislocation , or fractures of the ossicles .