ossicle

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Bone-like joint or plate, especially:

The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.

A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear

The eyeballs were surrounded by a ring of bones, the sclerotic ossicle, which probably protected their eyes when diving abruptly for prey.

{n} a small or little bone, a stone of fruit
A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear
One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes
a small bone; especially one in the middle ear
{i} small bone; one of the bones in the small bony structure in the human middle ear
Bone-like joint or plate, especially
Weberian ossicle
One of a chain of small bones that connect the auditory system to the air bladder of teleost fishes
auditory ossicle
ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear
ossicles
plural of ossicle
ossicle