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The nickname of the incus bone is "anvil". It is the middle bone of three bones existing in the middle ear.

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An incus in Latin is an anvil (and, in medical terminology, an anvil-shaped bone of the middle ear).


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What bone is the hearing and equilibrium receptors located?

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Where is your smallets bone found?

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Is the incus the laying down of new bone in the middle ear?

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What bone contains a apex and a base?

The stapes bone in the middle ear contains an apex (which connects to the incus bone) and a base (which connects to the oval window of the inner ear).


What is the bone in the eardrum?

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It does the same routinely. Both the bone are securely attached to each other.


What is a bone in the head that starts with i?

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