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tympanic membrane

NOUN
eardrum
Synonyms
STRONG


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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 tympanic membrane is commonly called the ear drum.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Laterally the stapes carries a short, broad process that probably made contact with a dorsally placed tympanic membrane.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)




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