incus

noun

An anvil-shaped bone between the malleus and the stapes in the mammalian middle ear.

noun

A thunderhead.

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In zoology and anatomy: One of the bones of the inner (middle) ear of a mammal: so named from its fancied resemblance to an anvil.

noun

An anvil.

noun

One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.

noun

The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.

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A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.

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an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

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the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes