Incus Berengario da Carpi in his "Commentaria super anatomia Mundini" (1521). Andreas Vesalius, in his "De humani corporis fabrica", was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name "incus". The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by Pieter Paaw in 1615. Incus The incus or anvil is a bone in the middle ear. The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The "incus" receives vibrations from the malleus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the
The Broken Ear the minor character of Carajo was renamed Caraco, because the word "carajo" is Spanish slang for penis. "The Broken Ear" introduced the character General Alcazar to the series, who went on to become a recurring character who appeared in three further "Adventures". As noted by Hergé biographer Harry Thompson, "The Broken Ear" is the first story in the "Tintin" series to "start and finish in home surroundings" and the first to deal with the hunt for a specific object. It also marks the last story in which Tintin is seen taking part in journalistic activity and the first time that