ossicle

• 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
• 9). The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second. —  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
• The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

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