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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stapes \Sta"pes\, n. [LL., a stirrup.] (Anat.)
The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or
stirrup bone; -- so called from its form See Illust. of
{Ear}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
stapes
n : the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound to the
cochlea [syn: {stirrup}]
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