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Definition of Tympanic bone
1. Noun. The bone enclosing the middle ear.
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
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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