TYMPANIC MEMBRANE vs TYMPANUM: NOUN
- The membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
- Eardrum
- The membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
- A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- The main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear
- A membranous external auditory structure, as in certain insects.
- The ornamental recessed space or panel enclosed by the cornices of a triangular pediment.
- A similar space between an arch and the lintel of a portal or window.
- The diaphragm of a telephone.
- An ancient tambourine or hand-drum, either with a single head like the modern tambourine, or with both front and back covered (the back sometimes swelled out as in a kettledrum), and beaten either with the hand or with a stick.
- In anatomy and zoology: The ear-drum considered as to its walls, its cavity, and its contents.
- The tympanic membrane; the ear-drum, in the restricted sense of that term: so used in physiology and aural surgery, and in common speech: as, a rupture of the tympanum. See tympanic membrane, under tympanic.
- In ornithology: The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe of sundry birds, as the mergansers and various sea-ducks: a large irregular bony or gristly dilatation of the lower part of the trachea, often involving also more or less of the upper ends of the bronchi. It is chiefly found, or most developed, in the male sex.
- The naked inflatable air-sac on each side of the neck of certain birds, as grouse, especially the sage-grouse and prairie-hen, in which the ordinary cervical air-cells of birds are inordinately developed and susceptible of great distention. See cut under Cupidonia.
- In entomology, a tympanic membrane, stretched upon a chitinized ring, one surface being directed to the exterior, the other to the interior, in relation with a tracheal vesicle and with nervous ganglia and nervous end-organs in the form of clavate rods, as in the Orthoptera, where such an arrangement constitutes an auditory organ.
- In architecture: The triangular space forming the field or back of a pediment, and included between the cornices of the inclined sides and the horizontal cornice; also, any space similarly marked off or bounded, as above a window, or between the lintel of a door and an arch above it. The tympanum often constitutes a field for sculpture in relief or in the round. See also cuts under pediment and pedimented.
- The die or drum of a pedestal. See cuts under dado and pedestal.
- The panel of a door.
- In hydraul, engin., a water-raising current-wheel, originally made in the form of a drum, whence the name.
- A kind of hollow tread-wheel wherein two or more persons walk in order to turn it, and thus give motion to a machine.
- In botany, a membranous substance stretched across the theca. of a moss.
- The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See ear.
- A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
- One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
- The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.
- The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
- A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
- A triangular space between the sides of a pediment.
- The middle ear.
- The eardrum.
- A hearing organ in frogs, toads and some insects.
TYMPANIC MEMBRANE vs TYMPANUM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- The main cavity of the ear
TYMPANIC MEMBRANE vs TYMPANUM: RELATED WORDS
- Glottis, Malposition, Bleb, Ostia, Mastoid, Semicircular canal, Tricuspid valve, Septal, Iliac artery, Basilar artery, Auditory canal, Auricle, Eustachian tube, Tympanum, Eardrum
- Caryatids, Oculus, Lintel, Entablature, Pilaster, Gothic arch, Transept, Tympanic cavity, Middle ear, Kettle, Eardrum, Timpani, Tympanic membrane, Kettledrum, Tympani
TYMPANIC MEMBRANE vs TYMPANUM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Glottis, Malposition, Bleb, Ostia, Mastoid, Semicircular canal, Tricuspid valve, Septal, Iliac artery, Basilar artery, Auditory canal, Auricle, Eustachian tube, Tympanum, Eardrum
- Flowerlike, Quoins, Caryatids, Oculus, Lintel, Entablature, Pilaster, Gothic arch, Transept, Middle ear, Kettle, Eardrum, Timpani, Tympanic membrane, Tympani
TYMPANIC MEMBRANE vs TYMPANUM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- To include otoscopy of external ear, canal, tympanic membrane.
- Traumatic tympanic membrane perforations: characteristics and factors affecting outcome.
- Signs include bulging, perforated, reddened, or retracted tympanic membrane.
- The tympanic membrane is normally mobile, translucent, and intact.
- What equalizes pressure on both sides of tympanic membrane?
- Use an otoscope to look at the tympanic membrane.
- What does a normal tympanic membrane look like?
- The eardrum, a membrane between the outer ear and middle ear, also known as the tympanic membrane, vibrates to assist in the hearing process.
- Its most conspicuous expression is the large tympanic membrane supported by the cartilaginous tympanic annulus that lies within the posterior embayment of the squamosal.
- Amplified sound is transmitted by vibrating the tympanic membrane through a transducer that is in direct contact with the tympanic membrane.
- Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch.
- The West Tympanum at the Church of St.
- The ripe fruit of the tympanum, named from Fallopius.
- The tympanum represents the city or Mansion of God.
- In which group of animals tympanum or tempanic membrane first evoluved?
- West Tympanum, Last Judgment, at the Cathedral of St.
- Left Compartments, Central Portal Tympanum, Church of St.
- Whom earthly error binds for the tympanum last judgment tympanum of the tendrils of the fire hair of autun.
- Virtues and consists of st tympanum last judgment tympanum, we see this is st.
- Site to explain the tympanum last judgment tympanum is a magnificent display of biblical scenes.
TYMPANIC MEMBRANE vs TYMPANUM: QUESTIONS
- How is a tympanic membrane rupture diagnosed and treated?
- Do you need surgery for a perforated tympanic membrane?
- How is tympanic membrane perforation treated in otitis media?
- When is audiometry indicated for tympanic membrane perforation (TMP)?
- What is the purpose of a perforated tympanic membrane?
- What does a normal left tympanic membrane look like?
- Can a tympanic membrane thermometer measure oral temperature?
- How does the tympanic membrane increase ear pressure?
- How is perforation of the tympanic membrane diagnosed?
- When is Myringoplasty performed for tympanic membrane perforation?
- What is the tympanum of the Church of Saint Maclou?
- What is the significance of the tympanum in the church?
- What is the tympanum in the Cathedral of Saint Lazare?
- What is the function of the tympanum in architecture?