Hypertext Webster Gateway: "malleus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Malleus \Mal"le*us\, n.; pl. {Mallei}. [L., hammer. See {Mall} a
beetle.]
1. (Anat.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones,
ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic
membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See
Illust. of {Far}.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of
Rotifera. See {Mastax}.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
malleus
n : the ossicle attached to the eardrum [syn: {hammer}]
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