stirrup
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- n support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go
- n the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
- In humans, at sounds near and above 160 decibels, the stirrup (one of three little bones in the middle ear) may be driven through the small "window" in the well of the inner ear.
- The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle earthe "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"then .
- All stores were soon sold out of stirrup pumps.