tympanic
Americanadjective
adjective
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anatomy architect of, relating to, or having a tympanum
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of, relating to, or resembling a drumhead
Other Word Forms
- posttympanic adjective
- pretympanic adjective
Etymology
Origin of tympanic
First recorded in 1800–10; tympan(um) + -ic
Example Sentences
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The researchers used 921 videos from the training library to teach two different AI models to detect AOM by looking at features of the tympanic membrane, including shape, position, color and translucency.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
Presley, R. Lizards, mammals and the primitive tetrapod tympanic membrane.
From Nature • Nov. 12, 2017
And it’s only with the six-speed that you can evoke all from the Aston’s petro-powered melodeon, from the tympanic idle to the wild happiness at 7,000 rpm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2015
When a microphone was placed in its ear, everyone could hear a ringing tone—the result, it turned out, of an oversensitive tympanic membrane.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015
They intergrade with trumbullensis in the size and shape of the zygomatic arches and tympanic bullae.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
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