Usually means: Small bone in middle ear.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. stapes: Merriam-Webster
  2. stapes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stapes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stapes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stapes: Vocabulary.com
  6. stapes: Wordnik
  7. stapes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Stapes (stirrup): InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. stapes: Wiktionary
  10. stapes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stapes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stapes: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stapes: Dictionary.com
  14. stapes: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Stapes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stapes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stapes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stapes: Rhymezone
  19. Stapes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stapes: FreeDictionary.org
  21. stapes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. stapes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stapes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. stapes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Stapes: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Stapes (stirrup): Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Stapes: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  9. stapes: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  10. stapes: Medical dictionary
  11. Stapes: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stapes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anatomy, zootomy) A small stirrup-shaped innermost ossicle of the middle ear of mammals, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.

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