INCUS

incus, anvil

(noun) the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes

Source: WordNet® 3.1

incus (plural incudes)

(skeleton) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.

(meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

• (bone in the middle ear): anvil

• (cloud): anvil, thunderhead

• NICUs, U.S. Inc, usnic

Source: Wiktionary

In"cus, n. Etym: [L., anvil.]

1. An anvil.

2. (Anat.)

Definition: One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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3 July 2025

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”

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