incus

Examples

• All

• This is the malleus, the incus, and the stapes.

• The malleus, incus, and stapes can be seen to move together, similar to a simple force-increasing lever.

  Academic text (1998)

• A slight degree of osteitis was seen in the long process of the incus.

  Academic text (2001)

• The basic transducer has been developed with two styles of incus attachment.

  Academic text (1998)

• The phase difference between the malleus and the incus also increases from that observed at 1,000 Hz.

  Academic text (1998)

• During surgery, the wire is fixed to the long arm of the incus and manually closed with McGee forceps.

  Academic text (2005)

• The malleus and incus were fused, but an incudomalleolar joint was seen.

  Academic text (2003)

• Also, preservation helps maintain the blood supply to the lenticular part of the incus, which may reduce postoperative incus necrosis.

  Academic text (1999)

• A stainless-steel stapes prosthesis was then placed from the incus to the footplate.

  Academic text (2006)

• The ossicular chain reconstruction involved placing the resculpted incus body between the long process of the malleus and the stapes capitulum.

  Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

A

anvil

vsincus

• Specialized

1 7.7

A small bone in the middle ear that passes sound from one ear bone to another

is the scientific term used for that same middle ear bone

Surface Forms

Etymology