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Stapes
The stapes is the stirrup-shaped small bone or ossicle in the
middle ear which attaches the incus to the fenestra ovalis, the oval window which is adjacent to the vestibule[?] of the inner ear.
The stapes transmits the sound vibrations from the incus to the membrane of the fenestra ovalis.
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