Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The innermost of the three small bones of the middle ear, shaped somewhat like a stirrup.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bandage for the foot forming figure-of-eight turns around the ankle.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, the inmost one of the three auditory ossicles of man and other mammals, situated in the tympanum, or middle ear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See
Illust. ofear .
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- noun anatomy A small
stirrup -shapedbone of themiddle ear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now, if you can see where the pointer is pointing here on this upper right diagram, this long structure here with a big hole in the middle is called the stapes, and this is an ear bone that connects up to the eardrum in the inner ear, this little funny snail shaped thing, this bone, the stapes, has been in animals ever since they came out on land.
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The incus moves with the malleus and passes on the vibrations to the third bone, which is shaped like a tiny stirrup (with an opening not much larger than the eye of a needle) and therefore called the stapes (sta/peez; "stirrup" L).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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THE INTERNAL EAR On the other side of the oval window covered by the stapes is the vestibule referred to on page 248.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The preservation of the skull is so precise that even the middle-ear bone, known as the stapes, remains perfectly intact and in its correct position, a very rare discovery in fossils.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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That’s just so you can see where the stapes is the comparable structures.
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The hearing loss is correctable by surgery in which the stapes bone is replaced by prosthesis.
John W. House, M.D.: Too Many Tests! M.D. John W. House 2011
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Our radiologist located the otosclerosis adjacent to the stapes.
John W. House, M.D.: Too Many Tests! M.D. John W. House 2011
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The obvious diagnosis is otoslcerosis which is a condition caused by abnormal bone growth in the middle ear around the stapes bone 3rd ear bone in the middle ear.
John W. House, M.D.: Too Many Tests! M.D. John W. House 2011
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At one point, the lady at the desk next to me goes into a drawer for stapes or something and bangs my butt, ripping out my earphone and effectively disconnecting me from the show.
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At one point, the lady at the desk next to me goes into a drawer for stapes or something and bangs my butt, ripping out my earphone and effectively disconnecting me from the show.
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