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tripus
(English) The fourth of the four Weberian ossicles, so-named for its three processes. The anterior process joins it to the intercalarium by a ligament, the median process joins it to the third vertebral centrum and the third, posterior process contacts the anterior wall of the gas bladder through a transformator process.

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