different between incus vs ossicle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inc?s (“anvil”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???.k?s/
• Rhymes: -??k?s

Noun

incus (plural incudes)

1. (anatomy) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
   • 2010, Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576

     The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles […] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (mal?e-us; "hammer"); the incus (ing?kus; "anvil"); and the stapes (sta?p?z; "stirrup").

2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

Synonyms

• (bone in the middle ear): anvil
• (cloud): anvil, thunderhead

Related terms

• incudal

Translations

Anagrams

• NICUs, U.S. Inc, usnic

Afrikaans

From Latin inc?s (“anvil”).

Noun

incus (plural incudes)

1. (anatomy) incus

Synonyms

• aambeeld

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.kys/

Noun

incus m (plural incus)

1. (anatomy) incus

Synonyms

• enclume

Latin

Etymology 1

From inc?d? (“forge, fabricate”), from in- + c?d?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.ku?s/, [???ku?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.kus/, [?i?kus]

Noun

inc?s f (genitive inc?dis); third declension

1. anvil

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

New Latin; from Spanish, from Quechua inka (“emperor, male of royal blood”).

Adjective

incus (feminine inca, neuter incum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Incan

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Related terms

• Inca

References

• incus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• incus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• incus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Late 16th century, from Latin ossiculum (“little bone, ossicle”) from os (“bone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?k?l/

Noun

ossicle (plural ossicles)

1. (anatomy) A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.

   The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles.

   • 1836, William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, vol. 1, William Pickering, p. 174:

     The eyeballs were surrounded by a ring of bones, the sclerotic ossicle, which probably protected their eyes when diving abruptly for prey.

2. (zoology) Bone-like joint or plate, especially:
   1. one of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes;
   2. one of the hard articuli or joints of the stem or branches of a crinoid or encrinite;
   3. one of the several small hard chitinous parts or processes of the gastric skeleton of crustaceans, as in the stomach of a lobster or crawfish.
   4. The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

See os.

Translations

See also

• bone
• incus
• malleus
• stapes

Anagrams

• loessic, scolies

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /u?si.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?si.kle/

Noun

ossicle m (plural ossicles)

1. ossicle (small bone)