auditory ossicle

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   ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear

   Broaderossicle

   Narrowermalleusincusstapes

Questions about auditory ossicle

What does auditory ossicle mean?

auditory ossicle means "ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear".

Is auditory ossicle a common word?

auditory ossicle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.