For Providers -- Atlas of Human Anatomy
Translated by: Ronald A. Bergman, PhD and Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
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a) Pinna (s. auricula externa), outer ear.
b) External auditory meatus.
c) Tympanic membrane.
d) Malleus.
e) Malleus, anterior (long) process (s. processus gracilis vel Folianus).
f) Malleus, manubrium.
g) Incus (s incudus).
h) Incus, short leg.
i) Incus, long leg.
k) Ossiculum orbicularis Sylvii (s. os orbiculare seu [or] lenticulare or processus
orbicularis seu lenticularis)
described as a separate bone tipped with cartilage, which is in the fetus up
to the sixth month, after which it fuses with the malleus and is then called
a process rather than a separate bone.
l) Stapes.
m) Vestibule.
n) Superior semicircular canal.
o) Posterior semicircular canal.
p) Lateral semicircular canal.
q) Cochlea.
r) Cochlear cupula.