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Definition of Stapes

1. Noun. The stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea.

Definition of Stapes

1. n. The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.

Definition of Stapes

1. Noun. (skeleton) A small stirrup-shaped bone of the middle ear. ¹

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Definition of Stapes

1. a bone of the middle ear [n -PEDES]

Medical Definition of Stapes

1. One of three ossicles of the middle ear. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stapes

Literary usage of Stapes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"1888), gives an account of a woman, thirty-eight years old, who had been the subject of otorrhoea for years, and in whom he found a stapes detached from the ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"It corresponds in form, but is ST Fio! 172. THE stapes ix POSITION. Much magnified. (Schwalbe.) 1. The end of the shaft of the incus. 2. ..."

3. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The stapes (Fig. 172) has the form of a stirrup, and is the last in the chain ... The head of the stapes articulates with one of the processes of the incus. ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"THE stapes IN POSITION. Much magnified. (Schwalbe.) 1. The end of the shaft of the incus. 2. Its expansion or os orbiculare. 2'. The articular cartilage of ..."

5. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"In many forms, the parasphenoid covers much of the otic capsule ventrally, even extending under the footplate of the stapes. ..."

6. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"In many forms, the parasphenoid covers much of the otic capsule ventrally, even extending under the footplate of the stapes. ..."

7. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"The Physiology of the stapes, one of the Bones of the Organ of Hearing ; deduced from a comparative View of its Structure and Uses in different Animals. ..."

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