Definition of Tympanics

1. tympanic [n] - See also: tympanic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympanics

tympanic opening of auditory tube
tympanic opening of canaliculi for chorda tympani
tympanic opening of eustachian tube
tympanic part of temporal bone
tympanic plate of temporal bone
tympanic plexus
tympanic promontory
tympanic ring
tympanic sinus
tympanic vein
tympanic veins
tympanic wall of cochlear duct
tympanichord
tympanichordal
tympanicity
tympanics (current term)
tympanies
tympanism
tympanist
tympanists
tympanites
tympaniteses
tympanitic
tympanitic resonance
tympanitis
tympanize
tympanized
tympanizes
tympanizing
tympano

Literary usage of Tympanics

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"tympanics annular, not forming bulla!. Family ÍV. cusp. b. So central fifth cusp ; crowns of the upper molars matic arches. ..."

2. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1882)
"... however, the inner facet of two on the tympanics, as a rule), the combined angles, or either of them separately, is very small, or the base and foramen ..."

3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1857)
"... nasal, pterygoids, tympanics and hyoid bones, constituting a tube terminated by the ... the mandible is articulated to the extremities of the tympanics, ..."

4. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"By the confluence of the meso- and epi-tympanics, and of the pre- and hypo-tympanics, in the Eel tribe, the suspensory pedicle of the lower jaw is reduced ..."

5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"By the confluence of the meso- and epi-tympanics, and of the pre- and hypo-tympanics, in the Eel tribe, the suspensory pedicle of the lower jaw is reduced ..."

6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"At the base of the skull, between the occipital and squamosal, are the periotic bones, containing the organ of hearing or internal ear, and the tympanics, ..."

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