AUDITORY OSSICLE

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Meaning:

Ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("auditory ossicle" is a kind of...):

bonelet; ossicle; ossiculum (a small bone; especially one in the middle ear)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auditory ossicle"):

hammer; malleus (the ossicle attached to the eardrum)

anvil; incus (the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes)

stapes; stirrup (the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea)

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