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triossicular

triossicular adjective: having three ossicles.

Adjective

triossicular (not comparable)

  1. Having three ossicles
    • 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 triossicular

From tri- + ossicular.

Questions about triossicular

What does triossicular mean?
Triossicular means having three ossicles.
What part of speech is triossicular?
Triossicular is an adjective.

Words near triossicular in the dictionary

  1. triosephosphates
  2. trioses
  3. triosseal
  4. triosseal canal
  5. triosseal canals
  6. triossicular
  7. triostin
  8. trioval
  9. triovals
  10. triovulate
  11. trioxalate

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