...It is an admirable arrangement. There is a chain of three small bones which pass across the cavity; the malleus or hammer, the incus or anvil and the stapes or stirrup. The malleus is attached by its handle to the membrane of the tympanum, while the stapes is joined by its...

...from the eardrum to one of the small openings to the inner ear are three small movable bones called the malleus or hammer, the incus or anvil, and the stapes or stirrup. The Eustachian or auditory tube connects the cavity of the middle ear with the throat. Generally this tube...

...apparatus of the ear — of the middle ear consisting of the drum-head and the three connected bones, the malleus, or hammer, the incus, or anvil, and the stapes, or stirrup, and of the internal ear, comprising the cochlea and semicircular canals. The auricle serves the purpose...

...usual causes of inflammation of that organ. The three small bones, or ossicles, named from their shape, the malleus or hammer, the incus or anvil, and the stapes or stirrup form a bridge across the middle ear, the one end of the arch being fixed in the drum-head, and the...