Incus
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| Bone: Incus | ||
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| Left incus. A. From within. B. From the front. | ||
| Auditory tube, laid open by a cut in its long axis. | ||
| Gray's | subject #231 1044 | |
| MeSH | A09.246.397.247.362 | |
- For the record label, see Incus Records.
The incus or anvil is the anvil-shaped small bone or ossicle in the middle ear. It connects the malleus to the stapes. It was first described by Alessandro Achillin of Bologna.
The incus only exists in mammals, and is derived from a reptilian upper jaw bone, the quadrate bone.
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Head and neck of a human embryo eighteen weeks old, with Meckel’s cartilage and hyoid bar exposed. |
Ossicles |
[edit] See also
| VERTEBRAL COLUMN: vertebrae (cervical - atlas - axis | thoracic | lumbar) | sacrum | coccyx
cranial bones of SKULL: occipital | parietal | frontal | temporal | sphenoid | ethmoid facial bones of SKULL nasal | maxilla | lacrimal | zygomatic | palatine | inferior nasal conchae | vomer | mandible | hyoid UPPER EXTREMITY: clavicle | scapula | humerus | ulna | radius carpals (scaphoid | lunate bone | triquetral | pisiform | trapezium | trapezoid | capitate | hamate) | metacarpals | phalanges (prox | int | dist) LOWER EXTREMITY: pelvis (ilium, ischium, pubis) | femur | patella | fibula | tibia tarsals (calcaneus | talus | navicular | cuneiform | cuboid ) | metatarsals | phalanges (prox | int | dist) |
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