| 1. | The ossicles help amplify sound waves by nearly 15 20 times.
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| 2. | Other ossicles include spines, tubercles, small scales and vertebrae.
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| 3. | His phonautograph was constructed as an ear canal, eardrum and ossicles.
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| 4. | The larger plates of all body parts were connected by small ossicles.
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| 5. | They also function in growth and repair of the ossicles.
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| 6. | The skeleton is composed of many calcareous ossicles and spicules.
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| 7. | The ossicles prevent slipping by providing friction with the substrate.
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| 8. | The ossicles from which the stem is composed are known as columnals.
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| 9. | Plates are tabular ossicles that fit neatly together in a tessellated manner.
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| 10. | Other ossicles that may be present include pedicellariae and paxillae.
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