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  2. Ossicles - Wikipedia

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    The ossicles (also called auditory ossicles) are three irregular bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, and are among the smallest bones in the human body. . Although the term "ossicle" literally means "tiny bone" (from Latin ossiculum) and may refer to any small bone throughout the body, it typically refers specifically to the malleus, incus and stapes ("hammer, anvil, and ...

  3. Middle ear - Wikipedia

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    The middle ear contains three tiny bones known as the ossicles: malleus, incus, and stapes. The ossicles were given their Latin names for their distinctive shapes; they are also referred to as the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, respectively. The ossicles directly couple sound energy from the eardrum to the oval window of the cochlea.

  4. List of eponymous fractures - Wikipedia

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    Other names Fractures with names Abraham Colles, Albert Hoffa, Percivall Pott, Guillaume Dupuytren, Léon Athanese Gosselin, Jacques Lisfranc, Paul Jules Tillaux, William H. Harris, Paul Segond, Giambattista Monteggia

  5. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    superficial vein is percussed proximally; if impulse is felt over vein distally, valvular incompetence is present Budin's sign: Pierre-Constant Budin: surgery, obstetrics: suppurative mastitis: if breast milk flown into a sterile pad is mixed with pus (brown, yellow or bloody traces), mastitis may be present Brodie–Trendelenburg test

  6. Tympanic cavity - Wikipedia

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    The petrotympanic fissure opens just above and in front of the ring of bone into which the tympanic membrane is inserted; in this situation it is a mere slit about 2 mm. in length. It lodges the anterior process and anterior ligament of the malleus , and gives passage to the anterior tympanic branch of the internal maxillary artery .

  7. Anatomical terms of bone - Wikipedia

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    A sesamoid bone is a small, round bone that, as the name suggests, is shaped like a sesame seed. These bones form in tendons (the sheaths of tissue that connect bones to muscles) where a great deal of pressure is generated in a joint. The sesamoid bones protect tendons by helping them overcome compressive forces.

  8. Stapes - Wikipedia

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    The stapes is the third bone of the three ossicles in the middle ear and the smallest in the human body. It measures roughly 2 to 3 mm , greater along the head-base span. [ 1 ] It rests on the oval window , to which it is connected by an annular ligament and articulates with the incus , or anvil through the incudostapedial joint . [ 2 ]

  9. Malleus - Wikipedia

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    The head connects to the neck of malleus. The bone continues as the handle (or manubrium) of malleus, which connects to the tympanic membrane. [1] Between the neck and handle of the malleus, lateral and anterior processes emerge from the bone. [2] [3] The bone is oriented so that the head is superior and the handle is inferior. [3]