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Sense Organs > Ear > Ear, Middle > Ear Ossicles
Body Regions > Head > Ear > Ear, Middle > Ear Ossicles

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Ear Ossicles  

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Entry terms

  • Auditory Ossicle
  • Auditory Ossicles
  • Ossicle, Auditory
  • Ossicles, Auditory

Scope note

  • A mobile chain of three small bones (INCUS; MALLEUS; STAPES) in the TYMPANIC CAVITY between the TYMPANIC MEMBRANE and the oval window on the wall of INNER EAR. Sound waves are converted to vibration by the tympanic membrane then transmitted via these ear ossicles to the inner ear.

In other languages

  • kuuloluut

    Finnish

  • kuuloluu
  • kuuloluuketju
  • ossicula auditoria
  • ossicula auditus
  • Hörselben

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004429

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