/ˈɪŋ.kəs/
OriginBorrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).
- A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
“The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil");”
- an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
Formsincudes(plural)