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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ossicle /ˈɒsɪk(ə)l/

▶noun

1 Anatomy & Zoology a very small bone, especially one of those in the middle ear.

2 Zoology a small piece of calcified material forming part of the skeleton of an invertebrate animal such as an echinoderm.

– origin C16: from L. ossiculum, dimin. of os ‘bone’.

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