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Definition of Tympanic
1. Adjective. Resembling a drum.
2. Adjective. Associated with the eardrum.
Definition of Tympanic
1. a. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.
2. n. The tympanic bone.
Definition of Tympanic
1. Adjective. of, relating to, or resembling a drum ¹
2. Adjective. (anatomy) relating to the eardrum or middle ear; tympanal ¹
3. Adjective. (music) resonant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tympanic
1. pertaining to the tympanum [adj]
Medical Definition of Tympanic
1.
1. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympanic
Literary usage of Tympanic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The chorda tympani nerve, which passes anteriorly, close to the tympanic ...
The tympanic cavity is a small chamber, filled with air, which is placed ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Schäfer, Johnson Symington, Thomas Hastie Bryce (1909)
"The tympanic antrum is a part of the primitive middle-ear cavity, is developed
along with the tympanic cavity, and is generally fully as large at birth as ..."
3. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"If we apply this to the tympanic membrane, then it also should exhibit very great
vibrations when its own fundamental note is sounded, but only slight ..."
4. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The middle ear is enclosed in a cavity within the tympanic bulla. Its outer
boundary, as well as the inner boundary of the external ear. F1r,. 170. ..."
5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"This membrane consists of three layers: an external, or mucous, derived from the
mucous lining of the tympanic cavity; an internal, from the lining membrane ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"It is inserted obliquely, at an angle of about fifty degrees, into the tympanic
orifice of the meatus. into which its external face is directed with a ..."
7. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"Hence when the tympanic membrane is driven inwards, the corresponding inward
movement of the stapes in the fenestra is as far as extent is concerned only ..."
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