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Showing words for STAPES using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Stapes

pastes, spates, speats, stapes

5 Letter Words for Stapes

apses, asset, easts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peats, pests, petas, sates, seats, septa, septs, spaes, spate, spats, speat, spets, staps, steps, tapes, tasse, tepas

4 Letter Words for Stapes

apes, apse, apts, asps, asse, asst, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pesa, pess, pest, peta, pets, psst, psts, saps, sate, seas, seat, seps, sept, seta, sets, spae, spas, spat, spet, stap, step, tape, taps, tass, teap, teas, tepa

3 Letter Words for Stapes

aes, ape, apt, ase, asp, ass, ast, ate, atp, eas, eat, epa, esp, ess, est, eta, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pst, pta, pte, pts, sap, sat, sea, sep, set, spa, sps, spt, sse, ssp, sta, tap, tas, tea, tes, tps, tsp, tss

Definitions for Stapes

[1] the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup.Compare incus(def 1) , malleus.
[2] the stirrup-shaped bone that is the innermost of three small bones in the middle ear of mammals Nontechnical name: stirrup bone Compare incus, malleus

Words nearby Stapes

stanza, stapedectomy, stapedial, stapediotenotomy, stapelia, stapes, stapes-mobilization operation, staph, staphylectomy, staphyledema, staphyline

Origin of Stapes

1660–70; < New Latin stapēs, Medieval Latin: stirrup, perhaps etymologizing alteration of Italian staffa stirrup (< Germanic ) by association with Latin stāre to stand, and pēs, stem ped- foot

Other words from Stapes

sta·pe·di·al [stuh -pee -dee-uh  l] /stəˈpi di əl/ , adjective

Word origin for Stapes

C17: via New Latin from Medieval Latin, perhaps a variant of staffa, stapeda stirrup, influenced in form by Latin stāre to stand + pēs a foot