Crossword-Solution: STAPES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stapes | n. | The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STAPES | anagram | PASTES, SPATES |
We have 22 clues for the answer “STAPES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bone known as the stirrup | 1 answer |
| the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea | 1 answer |
| stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear of mammals | 1 answer |
| stirrup-bone | 1 answer |
| The ear's "stirrup" | 1 answer |
| Stirrup-shaped bone of the ear. | 1 answer |
| Stirrup bone | 1 answer |
| Smallest human Bone | 1 answer |
| Smallest bone in the human body | 1 answer |
| LITTLEST human bone | 1 answer |
| Bone of the middle ear | 2 answers |
| Middle-ear bone | 3 answers |
| MIDDLE ear bone | 4 answers |
| Ear Bone | 8 answers |
| stirrup | 10 answers |
| bone Ear | 10 answers |
| A THICK BONE FORMING THE SIDE OF THE HUMAN CRANIUM AND ENCASING THE INNER EAR | 10 answers |
| BONE RIB CHIP EAR | 11 answers |
| AN ACHE LOCALIZED IN THE MIDDLE OR INNER EAR | 11 answers |
| Ear | 29 answers |
| ear part | 32 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
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Sentences with STAPES (5)
Blake, an eminent Boston aurist, Professor Bell abandoned the phonautograph for the human ear, which it resembled; and, having removed the stapes bone, moistened the drum with glycerine and water, attached a stylus of hay to the nicus or anvil, and obtained a beautiful series of curves in imitation of the vocal sounds.
The Saracens at that time were among the great merchants of the world; Marseilles, Arles, Avignon, Montpellier, Toulouse, were the wonted stapes of their active traders.
The structure of the eye and ear in exact confirmity to the laws of optics and acoustics, shows as clearly as any experiment can show anything, that the source, cause or origin is common both to the properties of light and the formation of the lenses and retina in the eye--both to the properties of sound and the tympanum, malleus, incus and stapes of the ear.
Three small bones are stretched across the cavity of the tympanum, and called, from their form, the _malleus, incus_ and _stapes_, or the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
These bones, named in their order from the membrana tympani, are the _malleus_, the _incus_, and the _stapes_ (Fig.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1955–2009).