Editing Incus (section)

==History==
"Incus" means "anvil" in Latin. Several sources  attribute the discovery of the incus to the anatomist and philosopher [[Alessandro Achillini]].<ref>Alidosi, GNP. ''I dottori Bolognesi di teologia, filosofia, medicina e d'arti liberali dall'anno 1000 per tutto marzo del 1623'', Tebaldini, N., Bologna, 1623. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51029z/f35.image#</ref><ref>Lind, L. R. ''Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translations, documents'', American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1975. p.40</ref> The first brief written description of the ''incus'' was by [[Berengario da Carpi]] in his ''Commentaria super anatomia Mundini'' (1521).<ref>Jacopo Berengario da Carpi,''Commentaria super anatomia Mundini'', Bologna, 1521. https://archive.org/details/ita-bnc-mag-00001056-001</ref> [[Andreas Vesalius]], in his ''[[De humani corporis fabrica]]'',<ref>Andreas Vesalius, ''De humani corporis fabrica''. Johannes Oporinus, Basle, 1543.</ref> was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name ''incus''.<ref>O'Malley, C.D. ''Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. p. 121</ref> The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by [[Pieter Paaw]] in 1615.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Graboyes|first=Evan M.|author2=Chole, Richard A. |author3=Hullar, Timothy E. |title=The Ossicle of Paaw|journal=Otology & Neurotology|date=September 2011|volume=32|issue=7|pages=1185–1188|doi=10.1097/MAO.0b013e31822a28df|pmc=3158805|pmid=21844785}}</ref>