Malleus
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| Bone: Malleus | ||
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| Left malleus. A. From behind. B. From within. | ||
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| The right membrana tympani with the hammer and the chorda tympani, viewed from within, from behind, and from above. (Malleus visible at center.) | ||
| Bones and muscles in the tympanic cavity in the middle ear | ||
| Gray's | subject #231 1044 | |
| Precursor | 1st branchial arch[1] | |
| MeSH | Malleus | |
The malleus or hammer is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear which connects with the incus and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum. The word is Latin, and means 'hammer'.
It transmits the sound vibrations from the eardrum to the incus.
The malleus is unique to mammals, and evolved from a lower jaw bone in basal amniotes called the articular, which still forms part of the jaw joint in reptiles.
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 Ossicles |
 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. |
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| VERTEBRAL COLUMN: vertebrae (cervical C1 C2 C7 - thoracic - lumbar) - sacrum - coccyx
cranial bones of SKULL: occipital - parietal - frontal - temporal - sphenoid - ethmoid facial bones of SKULL nasal - maxilla - lacrimal - zygomatic - palatine - inferior nasal conchae - vomer - mandible - hyoid (greater cornu, lesser cornu, body) UPPER EXTREMITY: clavicle - scapula - humerus - ulna - radius carpals (scaphoid - lunate bone - triquetral - pisiform - trapezium - trapezoid - capitate - hamate) - metacarpals - phalanges (prox - int - dist) LOWER EXTREMITY: pelvis (ilium, ischium, pubis) - femur - patella - fibula - tibia tarsals (calcaneus - talus - navicular - cuneiform - cuboid ) - metatarsals - phalanges (prox - int - dist) |
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