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Webster 1913 Edition
Malleus
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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
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(Zool.)
A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.