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ossicle

/os-i-kuhl/US // ˈɒs ɪ kəl //UK // (ˈɒsɪkəl) //

睾丸,骨骼,睾丸素,骨骼骼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small bone.

Examples

  • The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.

  • A vertical section of an ossicle presents exactly the same features as the horizontal section now described.

  • There is no tympanic cavity or auditory ossicle in relation to the ear.

  • The parietal sagittal arc, including the region where there was probably a supra-lambdoid ossicle, was about 140 mm.

  • The next two phalanges were separate, and sometimes kept widely apart from each other by the introduction of a special ossicle.