Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie, MD The malleus is a hammer-shaped bone in the middle ear. It is also known as the ...

The middle ear has an eardrum and three bones known as ossicles – the malleus, incus and stapes. Sound waves collected by the external auditory canal cause the eardrum to vibrate, which is then ...

These are the smallest three bones in the human body. They’re called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, and they sit between the eardrum and the entrance to your inner ear, to the place ...