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edit"Ossicle" also describes the small bones that make up the skeleton of the Starfish. Should that be reflected here?
Although it might particularly refer to the auditory ossicles, the term is used for any small bone or calcified hard structure. (Henderson's dictionary of biological terms; functional anatomy of the vertebrates (Liem et al.))
Doctor floater (talk) 17:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I agree that "ossicle" is a more general term than this page would suggest. I just visited the La Brea tar pits where they have "dermal ossicles" on display (little bones which were embedded in the skin of ice-age sloths). -- Jacob, 27 Dec 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.36.235 (talk) 23:22, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
The Stapes gets its name from Modern Latin "stirrup," probably an alteration of Late Latin Stapia related to stare "to stand" and pedem, a accusative of pes "foot"
-Yes pedem is the accusative form of pes, but it doesn't appear that the accusative form played any role in the genesis of the word stapes. can we fix this? 68.93.195.102 (talk) 00:01, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
- Ossicle should probably be a dab page. FunkMonk (talk) 06:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)