0 one of three very small bones that carry sound from the eardrum to the inner ear -- 镫骨（三个最小的骨头之一，从耳膜携带声音到内耳中）
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.
