mallei

noun

  1. 1

    The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

    A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
  2. 2

    The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).

  3. 3

    One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

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