TYMPANIC CAVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tympanic cavity mean? 

• TYMPANIC CAVITY (noun)
  The noun TYMPANIC CAVITY has 1 sense:

1. the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear

  Familiarity information: TYMPANIC CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYMPANIC CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

middle ear; tympanic cavity; tympanum

Hypernyms ("tympanic cavity" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Meronyms (parts of "tympanic cavity"):

bonelet; ossicle; ossiculum (a small bone; especially one in the middle ear)

auditory tube; Eustachian tube (either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum)

hammer; malleus (the ossicle attached to the eardrum)

anvil; incus (the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes)

stapes; stirrup (the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea)

Holonyms ("tympanic cavity" is a part of...):

auditory apparatus (all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears)

 Context examples 

The internal wall of the tympanic cavity.

(Inner Wall of the Tympanum, NCI Thesaurus)

A hollow area in the upper portion of the tympanic cavity.

(Epitympanic Recess, NCI Thesaurus)

The administration of a drug directly into the tympanic cavity has high safety profile and allows delivering high concentrations of the agent to the inner ear end organ.

(Intratympanic Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

An oval, membrane covered opening from the tympanic cavity of the middle ear to the vestibule of the inner ear.

(Fenestra Ovalis, NCI Thesaurus)

A channel or tunnel for the tensor tympani muscle within the tympanic cavity which acts to dull sounds.

(Canal for Tensor Tympani, NCI Thesaurus)

The organ of hearing: composed of the external ear, which includes the auricle and the external acoustic, or auditory, meatus; the middle ear, or the tympanic cavity with its ossicles; and the internal ear or inner ear, or labyrinth, which includes the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea.

(Murine Ear, NCI Thesaurus)