tympanic membrane
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"The ear drum, or tympanic membrane, is a thin, flat piece of tissue that stretches across the ear canal," said Hoberman.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
Figure 27.13 Sound travels through the outer ear to the middle ear, which is bounded on its exterior by the tympanic membrane.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Presley, R. Lizards, mammals and the primitive tetrapod tympanic membrane.
From Nature • Nov. 12, 2017
When a microphone was placed in its ear, everyone could hear a ringing tone—the result, it turned out, of an oversensitive tympanic membrane.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015
Now the vibrations of the tympanic membrane are passed along the chain of bones attached to its inner surface and reach the stirrup bone.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
