ossicle
THREE BONES IN THE HUMAN EAR
Auditory Ossicles; Ossicle; Tympanic ossicle; Auditory ossicles; Auditory ossicle; Middle ear bone complex; Ear ossicles; Muscles of auditory ossicles; Musculi ossiculorum auditus; Ear ossicle; Ear bones; Ear bone; Ossicula auditus; Ossicula auditoria; Hammer, anvil and stirrup; Hammer anvil stirrup; Middle ear ossicles; Muscles of auditory ossicle; Muscles of the auditory ossicle; Muscles of the auditory ossicles; Auditory ossicle muscles; Bones of the ear
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1. Anatomy & Zoology a very small bone, especially one of those in the middle ear.
2. Zoology a small piece of calcified material forming part of the skeleton of an invertebrate animal such as an echinoderm.
Origin
C16: from L. ossiculum, dimin. of os 'bone'.