stapes

How To Use stapes In A Sentence

• Urbantschitsch has provided detailed measurements of the malleus, incus and the stapes.
• The joint between the incus and stapes is likewise a cartilagenous joint, with a tendency to ossify in older humans.
• Reptiles have a single ear ossicle, the stapes or stirrup bone.
• Sound is conducted through the middle ear via the stapes or columella (both are ear ossicles derived from the hyomandibular).
• This reduces the importance of the stapes in supporting the braincase ventrally.
• Results: The results showed that the effusion of the middle ear decrease the amplitude of stapes footplate and umbo, weaken the incoming energy of the inner ear, thus leading to hearing loss.
• “The malleus, the incus, and the stapes,” I answered automatically. Hardy Boys Haunted
• The stapes has neither a columella nor a stapedial foramen.
• A rod-like columella auris replaces the chain of ear ossicles, and may, or may not, answer to the stapes alone, or even possibly to the entire series. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• The fixation of the stapes may progress rapidly during pregnancy.