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• Like nearly everyone, she'd had an aural implant injected through her eardrum, and it had bonded bio-molecularly to the incus, malleus, and stapes bones of her middle ear. —  Asimov'sSF,August2007
• In turn, the eardrum vibrates, and these tremors are picked up by the three tiny bones in the middle ear: the malleus (resembling a club), the incus (shaped like an anvil), and the stapes (similar to a stirrup). —  The New Yorker
• Hidden by the bulla, and just external to the periotic bone, are the auditory ossicles, the incus, malleus, os orbiculare, and stapes. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• A chain of small bones, the malleus (m. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• Similarly, on developmental grounds, the malleus or hammer of mammals is the homologue of the articular of birds, since both are developed from a portion of Meckel's cartilage identical in form and connections in the two groups. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

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