Crossword-Solution: OSSICLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossicle | n. | A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear. |
| Ossicle | n. | One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “OSSICLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bone of very small size especially any of those in inner year | 1 answer |
| chitinous substance | 1 answer |
| bony substance | 1 answer |
| Small ear bone | 1 answer |
| Small bone, as in the ear | 1 answer |
| Small bone in the ear | 1 answer |
| SMALL bone of middle ear | 1 answer |
| Diminutive bone | 1 answer |
| CHITINOUS substance in animal framework, small piece of (zool.) | 1 answer |
| CALCAREOUS substance in animal framework, small piece of (zool.) | 1 answer |
| BONY substance in animal framework, small piece of (zool.) | 1 answer |
| Anvil, hammer or stirrup | 1 answer |
| Anvil, for one | 1 answer |
| Small bone. | 2 answers |
| Little bone. | 2 answers |
| Bone of the ear. | 2 answers |
| CALCAREOUS substance | 2 answers |
| Ear Bone | 8 answers |
| A SMALL BONE | 10 answers |
| anvil bone | 11 answers |
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Sentences with OSSICLE (5)
Thomka in 1895 reported a case of supernumerary tympanic ossicle, the nature of which was unknown, although it was neither an inflammatory product nor a remnant of Meckel's cartilage.
From the first part or base of the second branchial arch we get, in the mammals, the third ossicle of the ear, the stirrup; and from the succeeding parts we get (in this order) the muscle of the stirrup, the styloid process of the temporal bone, the styloid-hyoid ligament, and the little horn of the hyoid bone.
Meckel's cartilage, which was discovered by Meckel[205] in fish, amphibians and birds, is a long strip of cartilage which runs from the ear-ossicle known as the hammer in mammals,[206] to the inside of the mandible.
Though I have every reason to believe, that between the prostate of the male and the uterus of the female, the same amount of analogy exists, as between a coccygeal ossicle and the complete vertebral form elsewhere situated in the spinal series, I am as far from regarding the two former to be in all respects structurally or functionally alike, as I am from entertaining the like idea in respect to the two latter.
The surgeon removed the splints and bandages, and they discovered, what we both very well know, that there was not even so much as an ossicle of the worthy Capuzzi's right foot dislocated, still less broken.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1950–2018).