incus
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈɪŋ.kəs/
incus (plural incudes)
- (skeleton) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
- 2010, Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576
- The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles […] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup").
- 2010, Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576
- (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
- (bone in the middle ear) anvil
- (cloud) anvil, thunderhead
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