Category:Ossicle

Os"si*cle, n. Etym: [l. ossiculum, dim. of os, ossis, a bone.]

1. A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the Ear.

2. (zoöl.)

Defn: one of numerous small calcareous structures forming the Skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.