how did the smallest bone get its other name?
Because of its resemblance to a stirrup.
Stapes
The bone is so-named because of its resemblance to a stirrup (), an example of a late Latin word, probably created in mediaeval times from "to stand" (), as stirrups did n
where is the smallest bone in your body located In the middle ear. does the bone have a name? Yes, stapes or stirrup. what is its function? It transmits sound vibrations from the incus to the oval window. what does the window mentioned above refer to? It is a membrane-covered opening from the middle ear to the cochlea of the inner ear.
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Stapes [SEP] History
The stapes is commonly described as having been discovered by the professor Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia in 1546 at the University of Naples, although this remains the nature of some controversy, as Ingrassia's description was published posthumously in his 1603 anatomical commentary '. Spanish anatomist Pedro Jimeno is first to have been credited with a published description, in ' (1549). The bone is so-named because of its resemblance to a stirrup (), an example of a late Latin word, probably created in mediaeval times from "to stand" (), as stirrups did not exist in the early Latin-speaking world.