malleus

malleus puhekieltä The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.

The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles(..) These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup"). The "handle" of the malleus is secured to the eardrum, and the base of the stapes fits into the oval window.

... in the typical mastax of a Brachionus there are two hammer-like bodies (mallei), which work on a kind of split anvil (incus); ... each malleus consists of an upper part or head (uncus) and a lower or handle (manubrium);

Chorda tympani—Oſſicula quatuor auditus, 267—Malleus—Incus—Oſſiculum ſubrotundum ovale—Stapes(..)

: Chorda tympani—four auditory ossicles, 267—malleus—incus—subrotund oval ossicle—stapes(..)