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nounAn 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.
