| 21. | Also uniquely amongst tetrapods, the scolecomorphids lack a stapes bone in the middle ear.
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| 22. | The ability of the tympanum and stapes to effectively transmit vibrations is called impedance matching.
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| 23. | The stapes is a stirrup-shaped bone, and the smallest in the human body.
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| 24. | The Stapes and the Websters both agree to stay out of each other's way.
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| 25. | Brian spends the night at the Stapes'and hides when Julie calls at the house.
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| 26. | The sound vibrations are then transferred to the stapes ( stirrup ) through the incudostapedial joint.
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| 27. | The best understood mechanism is fixation of the stapes footplate to the oval window of the cochlea.
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| 28. | Instead, these thick stapes may have functioned to support the tissue that covers the otic notch.
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| 29. | The Kartush Hydroxyappetite Ossicular Struts were designed in 1987 to replace the incus and stapes bones.
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| 30. | This vibrates and sound is transmitted through a single bone, the stapes, to the inner ear.
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