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monossicular

monossicular adjective: having a single ossicle.

Adjective

monossicular (not comparable)

  1. Having a single ossicle
    • The middle ear structure of non-mammaliaform cynodonts is derived from the monossicular condition present in more basal synapsids and certainly different from both the triossicular structure of early mammaliaforms and mammals and the monossicular pattern of living reptiles [5 –6, 9, 14 –15, 27, 57...2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of monossicular

From mono- + ossicular.

Questions about monossicular

What does monossicular mean?
Monossicular means having a single ossicle.
What part of speech is monossicular?
Monossicular is an adjective.

Words near monossicular in the dictionary

  1. monosporic
  2. monosporidial
  3. monosporous
  4. monosporulation
  5. monospot
  6. monossicular
  7. monostability
  8. monostable
  9. monostachous
  10. monostachyous
  11. monostand

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