stapes

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Bones: malleus, incus, stapes.
鎚骨，砧骨，鐙骨。
Comprising three separate bones, the malleus, the incus and the stapes, this structure is unlike that of any other class of animal: reptiles and amphibians have one bone while fish have none.
中耳骨是由鎚骨、砧骨和鐙骨這三塊獨立的骨骼組成，這種結搆與其他任何綱目的動物都有所不同：爬行動物與兩棲動物都衹有單個耳骨，而魚類則沒有。
Two rare cases who suffer stapes-otosclerosis associated with ossified mallei superius ligament were reported.
文中報告二例鐙骨耳硬化癥同時伴有鎚骨靭帶骨化病例。

one of three very small bones that carry sound from the eardrum to the inner ear

the stirrup-shaped bone that is the innermost of three small bones in the middle ear of mammals (Nontechnical name stirrup bone)&rarrcompare incus , malleus