Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated below the axis or main part of the stapes or columella auris: specifically applied to an element or part of that bone in some animals, as birds, supposed by Flower to represent the stylohyal bone of a mammal.
- noun An inferior element of the columella auris; an infrastapedial bone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to a part of the
columella of theear , which in many animalsprojects below the connection with thestapes .
Etymologies
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infra- + stapedial
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