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anvil

Orchestral percussion instrument that imitates the sound of a blacksmith's anvil, but is constructed of small steel bars struck by a mallet of wood or metal. It can be so made as to produce notes of definite pitch, as in Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, but is usually indeterminate in pitch.



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The tumor was encountered in the mastoid antrum adjacent to the incus.
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The tiniest mammalian bones--the middle ear's sound-transducing trio of the stapes, incus, and malleus--most distinctively distinguish mammals from other vertebrates.
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The eardrum vibrates and transmits sound waves to the ossicles (three tiny bones--malleus, incus, and stapes) that amplify the waves, transporting them into the fluid-filled cochlea.
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