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Ossicles meaning
plural of ossicle
Using Ossicles
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ossicle
- In the example corpus, ossicles often appears in combinations such as: the ossicles, ossicles may, ossicles are.
Context around Ossicles
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ossicles
- In this selection, "ossicles" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, calcareous, dermal, auditory, may, bony and directly stand out and add context to how "ossicles" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the ossicles may be and and dermal ossicles with smaller. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ossicles" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ossicles
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Muscles main The movement of the ossicles may be stiffened by two muscles. (13 words)
The ossicles are three small bones in the middle ear which are involved in sound transduction. (16 words)
The ossicles directly couple sound energy from the ear drum to the oval window of the cochlea. (17 words)
The ear ossicles are pachyosteosclerotic (dense and compact) and differently shaped from land mammals (other aquatic mammals, such as sirenians and earless seals, have also lost their pinnae). (28 words)
The mobility of the ossicles may be impaired for different reasons and disruption of the ossicular chain due to trauma, infection or ankylosis may also cause hearing loss. (28 words)
The ossicles may be flat plates or bear external projections in the form of spines, granules or warts and they are supported by a tough epidermis (skin). (27 words)
Example sentences (12)
It coalesces into small calcareous ossicles (bony plates), which can grow in all directions and thus can replace the loss of a body part.
Most species of Carboniferous marine fish have been described largely from teeth, fin spines and dermal ossicles, with smaller freshwater fish preserved whole.
Muscles main The movement of the ossicles may be stiffened by two muscles.
Not all bones are interconnected directly: There are three bones in each middle ear called the ossicles that articulate only with each other.
The auditory ossicles can also reduce sound pressure (the inner ear is very sensitive to overstimulation), by uncoupling each other through particular muscles.
The ear ossicles are pachyosteosclerotic (dense and compact) and differently shaped from land mammals (other aquatic mammals, such as sirenians and earless seals, have also lost their pinnae).
The mobility of the ossicles may be impaired for different reasons and disruption of the ossicular chain due to trauma, infection or ankylosis may also cause hearing loss.
The ossicles are three small bones in the middle ear which are involved in sound transduction.
The ossicles directly couple sound energy from the ear drum to the oval window of the cochlea.
The ossicles may be flat plates or bear external projections in the form of spines, granules or warts and they are supported by a tough epidermis (skin).
The ossicles were given their Latin names for their distinctive shapes; they are also referred to as the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, respectively.
The sclerotic rings inside the eye were formed by eleven ossicles (small bones), similar to the amount in other pigeons.
Common combinations with ossicles
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: