Exempel på stapes

• It is called the stapes, and it is part of the ear. 

• Mandible, maxilla and auditory ossicles (malleus, incus and stapes) are branchial arch derivatives.

• The learning curve in stapes surgery.

• Coleman has taken a step along this road by her pattern of "stapes"and"fringes".

• When the stapes presses on the oval window, it causes the perilymph, the liquid of the inner ear to move.

• The structure is known as the middle ear, and is made up of the stapes, incus, malleus, and tympanic membrane.

• The biggest bone in the body is the femur in the upper leg, and the smallest is the stapes bone in the middle ear.

• In mammals, the splanchnocranium derives the bones of the middle ear, the malleus, the incus and stapes.

• However, in early amphibians the stapes was too large, making the footplate area oversized, preventing the hearing of high frequencies.

• It also has no tympanic annulus and stapes, making it probably extremely hard of hearing.

• It passes through the ring of the stapes and divides into supraorbital, infraorbital, and mandibular branches which follow the three divisions of the trigeminal nerve.

• This consists of two ossicles: the columella (equivalent to the stapes of higher vertebrates) which is fused to the skull, and the operculum.

• The procedure creates a tiny opening in the stapes (the smallest bone in the human body) in which to secure a prosthetic.

• The second is a congenital malformation of the stapes.

• Instead, these thick stapes may have functioned to support the tissue that covers the otic notch.

• The ability of the tympanum and stapes to effectively transmit vibrations is called impedance matching.