auditory ossicles

They may be called ear bones or auditory ossicles.

The absence of the auditory ossicles would constitute a moderate-to-severe hearing loss.

The largest bone in the human body is the femur and the smallest bones are auditory ossicles.

Muscles of auditory ossicles (see sense organs)

The tiny auditory ossicles of the middle ear and associated areas were also well preserved in this Castorocauda fossil.

See Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles.

Pressure sensors often take the form of membranes that function as eardrums, but are connected directly to nerves rather than to auditory ossicles.

One potential danger is that of accidentally puncturing the ear drum and/or breaking the auditory ossicles while ear picking.

The auditory ossicles can also reduce sound pressure (the inner ear is very sensitive to overstimulation), by uncoupling each other through particular muscles.

The muscles of auditory ossicles serve to modulate the motion of the ossicles.

It could be that sound transmission from the eardrum along the auditory ossicles to the inner ear would be impaired by worms in the middle ear.

The term "ossicles" literally means "tiny bones" and commonly refers to the auditory ossicles, though the term may refer to any small bone throughout the body.

The skeletal section of the head and neck forms the superior segment of the axial skeleton and comprises skull, hyoid bone, auditory ossicles, and cervical spine.

Changes in pressure caused by sound reaching the external ear resonate in the tympanic membrane, which articulates with the auditory ossicles, or the bones of the middle ear.

The auditory ossicles (malleus, incus and stapes), originate to form the second pharyngeal pouch are embedded in the tympanic cavity and normally appear during the first half of fetal life.

The evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles is one of the most well-documented and important evolutionary events, demonstrating both numerous transitional forms as well as an excellent example of exaptation, the re-purposing of existing structures during evolution.