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Ossicle   Listen
noun
Ossicle  n.  
1.
A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
2.
(Zool.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.





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"Ossicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... which the ossicles were deficient without causing any imperfection of hearing. Caldani mentions a case with the incus and malleus deficient, and Scarpa and Torreau quote instances of deficient ossicles. Thomka in 1895 reported a case of supernumerary tympanic ossicle, the nature of which was unknown, although it was neither an inflammatory product nor ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... bones of the higher Vertebrates has been evolved from anterior conditions existing in some fish-like form or other. But the particular view advocated by the learned Professor is open to criticism. Thus, it may be objected against this view, first, that it takes no account of the radial ossicle which becomes so enormous in the mole; secondly, that it does not explain the extra series of ossicles {177} which are formed on the outer (radial or marginal) side of the paddle in the Ichthyosaurus; ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart


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