Usually means: Small bone, especially in ear.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ossicle: Merriam-Webster
  2. ossicle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ossicle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ossicle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ossicle: Vocabulary.com
  6. ossicle: Wordnik
  7. ossicle: Wiktionary
  8. ossicle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ossicle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ossicle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ossicle: Dictionary.com
  12. Ossicle (echinoderm), Ossicle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ossicle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ossicle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ossicle: Rhymezone
  16. Ossicle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ossicle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ossicle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ossicle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. ossicle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ossicle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ossicle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ossicle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ossicle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. ossicle: Medical dictionary
  6. Ossicle: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See ossicles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ossicle)

noun:  (anatomy) A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.
noun:  (zoology) Bone-like joint or plate, especially:
noun:  one of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes;
noun:  one of the hard articuli or joints of the stem or branches of a crinoid or encrinite;
noun:  one of the several small hard chitinous parts or processes of the gastric skeleton of crustaceans, as in the stomach of a lobster or crawfish.

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