Definition of Maleus

Definition of Maleus

||Mal"le*us (?), n.; pl. Mallei (#). [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.] 1. (Anat.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

3. (Zoöl.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

Latin
hammer

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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