WAG here...malleus? see def.

Posted By: jade on 2007-04-20
In Reply to: Neuro - Mo

Subject: WAG here...malleus? see def.

Malleus: A tiny bone shaped like a minute mallet in the middle ear. The malleus transmits the sound vibrations from the eardrum to the incus, another little bone in the middle ear. Malleus is Latin for mallet, hammer.

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Neuro - Mo
- Perhaps annulus? - Maybe?
- Can you hear "hemisphere?" - dolfan
  - no... no markers of that word... ego crushed, leaving a blank! sm - Mo
- MLS=midline shift? sm - flybye
  - this too is on my WAG list! sm - Mo
- WAG here...malleus? see def. - jade
  - I wondered myself... just not sure... sm - Mo
- posterior vermis?..... - nm
  - don't think so more like posteromedialis... sm - Mo
    - posterior medial frontal gyrus? - nm
      - I don't think it's that either. I'm stuck!! Thanks tho. nm - Mo

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