incus

Examples of incus in the following topics:

• Reception of Sound

  • The three ossicles are the malleus (also known as the hammer), the incus (the anvil), and stapes (the stirrup).
  • The incus attaches the malleus to the stapes.
  • If we did not have the malleus and the incus, then the vibrations of the tympanum would never reach the inner ear.

• Audition: Hearing, the Ear, and Sound Localization

  • This is accomplished by a series of three bones in the middle ear: the malleus, the incus, and the stapes.
  • It senses sound vibrations and transfers them onto the incus.
  • The incus (Latin for "anvil") is the bridge between the malleus and the stapes.
  • The stapes (Latin for "stirrup") transfers the vibrations from the incus to the oval window, the portion of the inner ear to which it is connected.

• Overview of the Axial Skeleton

• Characteristics of Mammals

  • Mammals have three: the malleus, incus, and stapes.
  • The malleus originated from the articular bone, whereas the incus originated from the quadrate bone.

• Human Perception of Sound

  • Then we are in the middle ear, which has three very, very small bones: the malleus, incus and stapes.

• Human Axial Skeleton

  • The auditory ossicles consist of six bones: two malleus bones, two incus bones, and two stapes, one of each on each side.

• The Axial Skeleton

  • The ossicles (also called auditory ossicles) consist of three bones (malleus, incus, and stapes) that are the smallest in the body.

• Transduction of Sound

  • The middle ear exists between the tympanic membrane (the boundary with the outer ear) and the oval window (the boundary with the inner ear) and consists of three bones: the malleus (meaning hammer), the incus (meaning anvil), and the stapes (meaning stirrup).