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adjective

Tympanic adj.

Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.

Tympanic bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane.

Tympanic membrane. (Anat.) See the Note under Ear.

noun

Tympanic n. (Anat.) The tympanic bone.

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Etymology of 'Tympanic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... that there was a remarkable likeness between the manner in which this piece of wood was vibrated by the membrane of the phonautograph and the manner in which the ossiculo [small bones] of the human ear were moved by the tympanic membrane. I determined therefore, to construct a phonautograph modelled still more closely upon the mechanism of the human ear, and for this purpose I sought the assistance of a distinguished aurist in Boston, Dr. Clarence J. Blake. He suggested the use of the human ...

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