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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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