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mallei

mallei is the plural of malleus.

Meaning of malleus

Noun

malleus (plural mallei)

  1. The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
    • A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.
    Synonyms:
    hammer
  2. The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  3. One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.
    • […] in the typical mastax of a Brachionus there are two hammer-like bodies (mallei), which work on a kind of split anvil (incus); […] each malleus consists of an upper part or head (uncus) and a lower or handle (manubrium);1884, “Memoirs: An Attempt to re-classify the Rotifers”, in Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1884 s2-24, C.T.: Hudson, pages 335-356

Questions about mallei

What is mallei the plural of?
Mallei is the plural of malleus.

Words near mallei in the dictionary

  1. mallee hen
  2. mallee hens
  3. malleefowl
  4. malleefowls
  5. mallees
  6. mallei
  7. malleid
  8. malleids
  9. malleiform
  10. mallein
  11. mallemaroking

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