Definition of Tympanic bone

1. Noun. The bone enclosing the middle ear.

Generic synonyms: Bone, Os
Group relationships: Os Temporale, Temporal Bone

Medical Definition of Tympanic bone

1. In the foetus, a more or less complete bony ring at the medial end of the cartilaginous external acoustic meatus, to which is attached the tympanic membrane. Synonym: annulus tympanicus, tympanic bone. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympanic Bone

tymes
tymovirus
tymp
tympan
tympan-
tympana
tympanal
tympanectomy
tympani
tympania
tympanic
tympanic air cells
tympanic antrum
tympanic attic
tympanic body
tympanic bone (current term)
tympanic canal
tympanic canaliculus
tympanic cavity
tympanic cells
tympanic enlargement
tympanic ganglion
tympanic gland
tympanic groove
tympanic incisure
tympanic intumescence
tympanic labium of limbus of spiral lamina
tympanic lip of limbus of spiral lamina
tympanic membrane
tympanic membrane perforation

Literary usage of Tympanic bone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"The tympanic bone is simply a part of the auditory organ, having no relation whatever with the masticatory apparatus. In the descending series of animals we ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1847)
"contribution of the articular surface for the tympanic bone," which surface ... In the skull of the ostrich, with the tympanic bone and ear-drum in place, ..."

3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"... to this common reunion of the three bones is suspended the tympanic bone, which descends vertically to serve as a pedicle to the lower jaw. ..."

4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"The tympanic bone is produced externally into a spout-like tube, directed forwards and upwards, which is the external auditory meatus ; below and internally ..."

5. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"In the fotus this portion of the bone exists as a separate piece, called the tympanic bone (Fig. 240), but it afterward becomes ossified to the temporal. ..."

6. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"Another characteristic mammalian element, not directly within the tympanic cavity but closely associated with it, is the tympanic bone (os ..."

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