单词 | orbicular bone |
释义 | > as lemmasorbicular bone orbicular bone n. [after post-classical Latin os orbiculare (1666 or earlier)] Anatomy now rare or disused the lenticular process of the incus, esp. in the fetus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of ear > others os orbiculare1698 orbicular bone1706 tympanic1851 opisthotic1865 prootic1866 tympanal1875 otolith1890 tegmen tympani1890 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Orbicular Bone (in Anat.), one of the little Bones of the inner part of the Ear, which is fasten'd by a slender Ligament to the sides of that called Stapes. 1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 9 It is united by its long process to the orbicular bone, which is the smallest in the body. 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Orbicular bone, a very minute bone of the middle ear, like to a grain of sand..; it is a separate bone in childhood, but by some is looked upon as an epiphysis of the incus. < as lemmas |
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