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malleus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Malleus  \Mal"le*us\,  n.;  pl  {Mallei}.  [L.,  hammer.  See  {Mall}  a 
  beetle.] 
  1.  (Anat.)  The  outermost  of  the  three  small  auditory  bones, 
  ossicles;  the  hammer.  It  is  attached  to  the  tympanic 
  membrane  by  a  long  process,  the  handle  or  manubrium.  See 
  Illust.  of  {Far}. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  One  of  the  hard  lateral  pieces  of  the  mastax  of 
  Rotifera.  See  {Mastax}. 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  genus  of  bivalve  shells;  the  hammer  shell. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  malleus 
  n  :  the  ossicle  attached  to  the  eardrum  [syn:  {hammer}] 




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