Editing Stapes (section)

==History==
[[File:Ingrassia stapes noback.jpg|thumb|The ''stapes'', as first described by [[Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia]] ''(Labeled M, bottom right)''.]]
The ''stapes'' is commonly described as having been discovered by the professor [[Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia]] in 1546 at the [[University of Naples]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Dispenza|first1=F.|last2=Cappello |first2=F. |last3=Kulamarva |first3=G. |last4=De Stefano |first4=A. |title=The discovery of stapes|journal=Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica |date=October 2013|volume=33|issue=5|pages=357–359|pmid=24227905 |pmc=3825043}}</ref>  although this remains the nature of some controversy, as Ingrassia's description was published posthumously in his 1603 anatomical commentary ''{{lang|la|In Galeni librum de ossibus doctissima et expectatissima commentaria}}''. Spanish anatomist [[Pedro Jimeno]] is first to have been credited with a published description, in {{lang|la|Dialogus de re medica}} (1549).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mudry|first=Albert|title=Disputes Surrounding the Discovery of the Stapes in the Mid 16th Century|journal=Otology & Neurotology|date=April 2013|volume=34|issue=3|pages=588–592|doi=10.1097/MAO.0b013e31827d8abc|pmid=23370557|s2cid=30466939 }}</ref> The bone is so-named because of its resemblance to a stirrup ({{langx|la|stapes}}), an example of a [[late Latin]] word, probably created in [[mediaeval]] times from "to stand" ({{langx|la|stapia}}), as stirrups did not exist in the early Latin-speaking world.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harper|first=Douglas|title=Stapes (n.)|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stapes|work=Online Etymology Dictionary|access-date=27 December 2013}}</ref>