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
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
The outer ear ends at the most superficial layer of the tympanic membrane.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
They connect the tympanic membrane with the labyrinth, and serve to convey the vibrations communicated to the membrane across the cavity of the tympanum to the internal ear.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
