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| Bone: Incus | |
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| Left incus. A. From within. B. From the front. | |
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| Auditory tube, laid open by a cut in its long axis. | |
| Bones and muscles in the tympanic cavity in the middle ear | |
| Gray's | subject #231 1044 |
| Precursor | 1st branchial arch[1] |
| MeSH | Incus |
- For the record label, see Incus Records.
The incus or anvil is the anvil-shaped small bone or ossicle in the middle ear. It connects the malleus to the stapes. It was first described by Alessandro Achillin of Bologna.
The incus transmits sound vibrations from the malleus to the stapes.
The incus only exists in mammals, and is derived from a reptilian upper jaw bone, the quadrate bone.
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 Head and neck of a human embryo eighteen weeks old, with Meckel’s cartilage and hyoid bar exposed. |
 External and middle ear, opened from the front. Right side. |
 Chain of ossicles and their ligaments, seen from the front in a vertical, transverse section of the tympanum. |
 Ossicles |
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The Anatomy WizIncus
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