单词 | ear bone |
释义 | > as lemmasear bone ear bone n. (a) any of the bones enclosing or forming part of the ear; spec. = ossicle n. 1a; (b) = otolith n. 1 (cf. ear stone n. (b)). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of ear ear bone1656 1656 J. Tradescant Musæum Tradescantianum 9 A Whales..eare-bone. 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rand tr. J. Riolan Sure Guide vi. xii. 273 Then having pulled back the vaulted roof of the Ear, that is to say, having taken off the upper part of the Os Lithoides, you shal see the three little Ear-bones [L. tria auris ossicula], viz. The Malleolus, or Mallet; the Incus, or Anvil; and the Stapes, or Stirrup. 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 32 The rocky apophyse of the ear bone. 1877 H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) xx. 324 The Red Crag contains the ear-bones of Whales..and remains of the Mastodon. 1915 A. E. Shipley & E. W. MacBride Zool. (ed. 3) 644 The evolution of the ear-bones in Mammalia. 1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes i. 17 These ear bones or ‘otoliths’ bear concentric rings, each of which marks a year's growth, and so give a fair clue to the fish's age. 1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 15 Oct. b1 Otosclerosis causes a new ivory-like bone to grow in the middle ear, making one of three tiny ear bones rigid. The little bones, often called the hammer, anvil and stirrup, relay sound by vibrating. 2002 Nature Conservancy Winter 53/4 To ascertain the age of a goby fish, one counts the rings around its tiny ‘ear bones’. < as lemmas |
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