stapes 的定义
plural sta·pes, sta·pe·des [stuh-pee-deez]. /stəˈpi diz/. Anatomy.
- the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear.
更多stapes例句
- The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.
- Even then it may be anatomically impossible to see the stapes.
- In the latter (Ambystoma) the nerve is beneath, and in the former (Rana) above, the stapes.
- Sometimes the term columella is used to include the whole ossicular chain,—the columella together with the stapes.
- The stapes is very much like a reptilian columella, having a single crus with no perforation.