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ossicle


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ossicle  \Os"si*cle\,  n.  [L.  ossiculum,  dim.  of  os  ossis,  a 
  bone.] 
  1.  A  little  bone;  as  the  auditory  ossicles  in  the  tympanum 
  of  the  ear. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  One  of  numerous  small  calcareous  structures 
  forming  the  skeleton  of  certain  echinoderms,  as  the 
  starfishes. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ossicle 
  n  :  a  small  bone;  especially  one  in  the  middle  ear  [syn:  {bonelet}, 
  {ossiculum}] 




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