A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
a small bone, as those in the middle ear (incus, malleus, stapes)
ossiculum = a little bone, dim. L. os.
(ah´ sick ul) [L. os: bone] • The calcified construction unit of echinoderm skeletons.
Latin ossiculus, diminutive of os = bone.
A general term for any of the three ear bones.
A small bone such as exists in the inner ear of some vertebrates.
any small bony or chitinous structure found in various skeletal parts of animals. Usually used to refer to the bones of the middle ear in vertebrates.
A small bone, in this case in the middle ear.
