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The auditory ossicles of the middle ear transmit sounds from the air as vibrations to the fluid-filled cochlea. The auditory ossicles consist of two malleus (hammer) bones, two incus (anvil) bones, and two stapes (stirrups), one on each side. These bones develop during the fetal stage and are the ones to ossify first. They are fully mature at birth and do not grow afterward.
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Stapes-pyramidal fixation by a bony bar [Letter]

N Wendell Todd¹, Kai-Chieh Chan²

¹Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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