128 THE MEMBRANOUS LABYRINTH, BY PROF. RUDINGER. 



specimens, appear in the form of fusiform cells, and which I at 

 present regard as contractile fibre cells. 



This fixator baseos stapedis is confined not only to the 

 posterior extremity of the base of the stapes, where it is 

 thickest, but it is continued towards the upper border, and the 

 direction of its action is consequently antagonistic to the volun- 

 tary musculus stapedius ; for it fixes the basis at that part 

 which is pressed towards the vestibule by the unilateral action 

 of the musculus stapedius. 



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