ossicle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.
    — The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles.
  2. Bone-like joint or plate.; One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
    — The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.
  3. Bone-like joint or plate.; One of the hard articuli or joints of the stem or branches of a crinoid or encrinite.
  4. Bone-like joint or plate.; 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.

词形变化

ossicles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ambulacral ossicle Andernach's ossicles cardiac ossicle carpal ossicle epactal ossicles episternal ossicles intercalcar ossicles Kerckring's ossicle marginal ossicles ossicle of Bertin ossicular ossiculate ossiculectomy ossiculoplasty ossiculotomy Riolan's ossicles sphenoturbinal ossicle tarsal ossicle vertebral ossicle Weberian ossicles wormian ossicles

词源

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