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Definition of Drumhead
1. Adjective. Performed speedily and without formality. "Summary justice"
2. Noun. A membrane that is stretched taut over a drum.
Definition of Drumhead
1. n. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
Definition of Drumhead
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of drum head) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drumhead
1. the material stretched over the end of a drum [n -S]
Medical Definition of Drumhead
1. 1. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum. 2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. Drumhead court-martial, a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumhead
Literary usage of Drumhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"On the posterior superior quadrant we observe the contour of the posterior pouch
of the drumhead, under which, the rest of the drumhead has fallen very much ..."
2. A Manual of Otology by Gorham Bacon (1906)
"In the acute stage the drumhead will be found congested in part only or in its
whole extent. In the later stage there is apt to be an effusion of serum in ..."
3. Diseases of the nose, throat, and ear, and their accessory cavities by Seth Scott Bishop (1908)
"INJURIES TO THE drumhead. THE drumhead is occasionally ruptured by blows (Fig.
146), explosions, concussions from firearms, the pushing of pencils or straws ..."
4. Atlas and Epitome of Otology by Gustav Brühl, Seth MacCuen Smith (1902)
"An anomalous condition that is often observed consists in exaggerated convexity
of the floor of the canal, obscuring the anterior half of the drumhead. ..."
5. Fifty Years of My Life in the World of Sport at Home and Abroad by John Dugdale Astley (1894)
"Stirling Crawfurd—Sefton's Derby—A Moderate Horse—Buy drumhead—Brogden the
Jockey—The Bloater in Trouble— Gretton and Isonomy—He Wins the Cambridgeshire—Mr. ..."
6. Diseases of the nose, throat and ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1911)
"It is due to the great swelling of the drumhead and mucous membrane of the ...
It may also be due to the bulging of the drumhead outward into the meatus. ..."
7. Special Pathology and Diagnostics: With Therapeutic Hints by Charles Godlove Raue (1882)
"THE AUDITORY CANAL AND THE drumhead, OR MEMBRANA TYMPANI. Examination of these
Farts. The canal is not straight but curved on its anterior and lower wall ..."
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