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Mammals have three, the stapes, the malleus, and incus, the last two being the old reptilian jaw joint still conserved deep within our ear.
The joint between the incus and stapes is likewise a cartilagenous joint, with a tendency to ossify in older humans.
Another ligament attaches to the body of the incus and binds it to the roof of the middle ear.
Mr Bell removed the stapes, and attached to the end of the incus a style of hay about an inch in length.
Urbantschitsch has provided detailed measurements of the malleus, incus and the stapes.
Conclusion: patient's incus is usable in type III ossiculoplasty thanks to a cartilage graft of the tympanic membrane.
A partial or complete lysis of the long process of the incus was frequently associated, but in 9 cases it was the only cause of the failure.
In such cases, the malleus head and the incus body remain fixed together but the entire bloc is displaced.
These are the malleus, or hammer, the incus, or anvil, and the stapes, or stirrup.
The malleus resembles a club more than a hammer, whereas the incus looks like a premolar tooth with an extensive root system.
This handpiece is specially recommended for canalplasty, ossiculoplasty and incus and malleus stapedotomy.
Vibrations in the eardrum are transmitted to the hearing ossicles: the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup, or malleus, incus and stapes.
They suggested that vibrations pass from the substrate to the jaw, which are juxtaposed, and then pass via the jaw articulation to the incus and stapes.
Mammals hear sounds after they are transmitted from the outside world to their inner ears by a chain of three bones, the malleus, incus, and stapes.
The air pressure on either side of the eardrum is normally kept equal for proper functioning of the middle ear structures, namely the malleus, incus and stapes bones.
Prostheses in biomaterial appear justified in case of absent or destroyed incus.
The average post op air bone gap is 23 decibels with incus while it was 42 decibels before surgery.
The FMT is attached to one of the ossicles of the middle ear called the incus.
The long process of the incus is bent near the lower end and carries a small knoblike bone that is jointed loosely to the head of the stapes the third and smallest of the ossicles.
The distance tympanum-footplate is then lower than 6 mm and the body of the incus, preserved as a spare ossicle in the mastoid, has a sufficient length to be interposed in between new drum and footplate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In anatomy the term anvil is applied to one of the bones of the middle ear, the incus, which is articulated with the malleus.
The incus is articulated, or often fused, with an outgrowth from the head of the malleus.
A variety of instruments have been described for the purpose of removal of the incus.
The incus has a dorsally rounded body with an anterior downward snoutlike projection with which the malleus articulates.
The incus has a rounded body with a long angular limb articulating via a small lenticular process with the stapes.
It is passed over the incus in the same manner as an incus hook.
The body of the incus is round and the short process is elongate.
The stapes forms a close connection with the hammer and the incus.
The long limb of the incus is angular and longer than that of Zapus.
The short limb of the incus is broad at the base and tapers distally.
The incus, or anvil-bone, may be formed from part of Meckel's cartilage.
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