incus

noun

An anvil-shaped bone between the malleus and the stapes in the mammalian middle ear.

A thunderhead.

In zoology and anatomy: One of the bones of the inner (middle) ear of a mammal: so named from its fancied resemblance to an anvil.

An anvil.

One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.