Incus
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The incus (Template:Plural form: incudes) or anvil in the ear is one of three small bones (ossicles) in the middle ear. The incus receives vibrations from the malleus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the stapes medially. The incus is named for its resemblance to an anvil (Template:Langx).
Structure
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The superior ligament of the incus attaches at the body of the incus to the roof of the tympanic cavity.
The incus is homologous to the quadrate bone found in other tetrapods.[2]
Function
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History
"Incus" means "anvil" in Latin. Several sources attribute the discovery of the incus to the anatomist and philosopher Alessandro Achillini.[3][4] The first brief written description of the incus was by Berengario da Carpi in his Commentaria super anatomia Mundini (1521).[5] Andreas Vesalius, in his De humani corporis fabrica,[6] was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name incus.[7] The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by Pieter Paaw in 1615.[8]
Additional images
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Ossicles
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Tympanic cavity. Facial canal. Internal carotid artery.
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Auditory ossicles. Tympanic cavity. Deep dissection.
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Aditory ossicles. Incus and malleus. Deep dissection.
References
External links
- The Anatomy Wiz Incus
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- ↑ Alidosi, GNP. I dottori Bolognesi di teologia, filosofia, medicina e d'arti liberali dall'anno 1000 per tutto marzo del 1623, Tebaldini, N., Bologna, 1623. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51029z/f35.image#
- ↑ Lind, L. R. Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translations, documents, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1975. p.40
- ↑ Jacopo Berengario da Carpi,Commentaria super anatomia Mundini, Bologna, 1521. https://archive.org/details/ita-bnc-mag-00001056-001
- ↑ Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica. Johannes Oporinus, Basle, 1543.
- ↑ O'Malley, C.D. Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. p. 121
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