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tympanic membrane

NOUN
eardrum
Synonyms
STRONG


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The researchers used 921 videos from the training library to teach two different AI models to detect AOM by looking at features of the tympanic membrane, including shape, position, color and translucency.

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

Hearing in early amphibians developed from adapting the spiracles to become the tympanic membrane for transmitting sound to the brain through the stapes, one of our tiny inner ear bones.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2014

The ears, too, may be the source of disturbance in sleep; for even though we are asleep, the tympanic membrane is always exposed to vibrations of air.

From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.