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malleus

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malleus [′mal·ē·əs]
(anatomy)
The outermost, hammer-shaped ossicle of the middle ear; attaches to the tympanic membrane and articulates with the incus.


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9) A third and newer theory, called the acquired inclusion theory, suggests that under normal pathologic conditions, the tympanic membrane, while retracted onto the malleus handle and neck, leaves behind squamous epithelial cells that eventually develop into an inclusion cholesteatoma.
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In his book length study Witchcraft Williams quotes a lengthy passage from the Malleus Maleficarum that outlines Satan's motives in terms that are expressly linked to Plato's notion that goodness and being emanate from God as the single "self-existing" centre of all:
 
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