stapes

The innermost of the three small bones of the middle ear, shaped somewhat like a stirrup.

A bandage for the foot forming figure-of-eight turns around the ankle.

In zoology and anatomy, the inmost one of the three auditory ossicles of man and other mammals, situated in the tympanum, or middle ear.

The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; — so called from its form. See Illust. of ear.

A small stirrup-shaped bone of the middle ear.

the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea