malleus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

   “A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.”

2. isim The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
3. isim One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

   “[…] in the typical mastax of a Brachionus there are two hammer-like bodies (mallei), which work on a kind of split anvil (incus); […] each malleus consists of an upper part or head (uncus) and a lower or handle (manubrium);”