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It loses its connection with the palato-pterygoid, and apparently ossifies as a small ossicle-- the incus of the middle ear.— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
Meckel's cartilage, which was discovered by Meckel[205] in fish, amphibians and birds, is a long strip of cartilage which runs from the ear-ossicle known as the hammer in mammals,[206] to the inside of the mandible.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
In birds, where there is a single ear-ossicle, the columella, the middle piece of arch I forms, as we have seen, the quadrate, by means of which the lower jaw is joined to the skull.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
Radial ossicle, 176.— On the Genesis of Species
a case of supernumerary tympanic ossicle, the nature of which was unknown, although it was neither an inflammatory product nor a remnant of Meckel's cartilage.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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