Crossword-Solution: INCUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Incus | n. | An anvil. |
| Incus | n. | One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear. |
| Incus | n. | The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| INCUS | anagram | UNICS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with INCUS (5)
Caldani mentions a case with the incus and malleus deficient, and Scarpa and Torreau quote instances of deficient ossicles.
And yet they will go on killing and capturing and adding region to region, till the Abode of Snow (Himalaya) confines them to the north, the Sindhu-naddi (Incus) to the west, and elsewhere the sea.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1948–2019).