malleo-, malle-

1. Relating to the incus and the malleus; denoting the articulation between the incus and the malleus in the middle ear.
2. In anatomy, pertaining to the ambos, or incus [anvil; the middle of the three ossicles of the ear which serves to to conduct vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear], and malleus [hammer, the outermost of the auditory ossicles; its club-shaped head articulates with the incus]; as, the ambomalleal articulation.

Not malleable; incapable of being hammered out; unyielding (to force).

Between the malleoli (plural of malleolus, a rounded process, such as the protuberance on either side of the ankle joint).

To inflict a severe and permanent injury on a person or animal, especially one that renders a limb useless: "One young man was killed and two others were mauled and maimed by a lion at the San Francisco zoo in December, 2007."

Although not directly related to this malle- unit, "maim" is indirectly associated with it.

What we now call "a large enclosed building complex containing shops, restaurants, and other businesses and facilities serving the general public" originally came from Pall-Mall Alley; which was an alley used for a 17th century game where players used a mallet to hit a wooden ball through an iron hoop suspended at the end of a long alley and which later became a fashionable promenade (a place for a leisurely walk or stroll).

To clarify the connection between today's malls and the 1674 mall, we should view the malls we have now as "public walking places" (promenades) with The Mall in St. Jame's Park in London which referred to that alley-game mentioned earlier; that is, pall-mall or literally "ball-mallet".

1. Capable of being shaped by being beaten or by pressure; a property of certain metals such as gold and silver.
2. Having the characteristics of being beaten out into a thin plate.
3. Having the property (possessed by certain substances, especially metals) of being deprived of form by hammering or pressure, without a tendency or capacity to return to it, or to fracture.
4. Capable of being fashioned or adapted.

To beat with a hammer; specifically, to beat (metal) thin or flat.

Wrought with a hammer; also, marked or dented as with a hammer.

1. Convulsive movements of the hands, as if in the act of hammering.
2. A form of tic, in which the hands twitch in a hammering motion against the thighs.

Having the form of a hammer.

Relating to the malleus and the incus in the tympanum.

Relating to one or both malleoli.

A rounded bony prominence such as those on either side of the ankle joint.

1. Division of the malleus.
2. Division of the ligaments holding the malleoli in apposition in order to permit their separation in certain cases of clubfoot.

1. A kind of hammer, normally of wood, but sometimes it is made of other materials.
2. The wooden hammer used for striking the balls in the game of croquet.