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AUDITORY OSSICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory ossicle mean? 

AUDITORY OSSICLE (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY OSSICLE has 1 sense:

1. ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner earplay

  Familiarity information: AUDITORY OSSICLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AUDITORY OSSICLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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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