TYMPANIC MEMBRANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tympanic membrane mean? 

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

1. the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYMPANIC MEMBRANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

eardrum; myringa; tympanic membrane; tympanum

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

membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)

Meronyms (parts of "tympanic membrane"):

umbo (a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tympanic membrane"):

perforated eardrum (an eardrum with a hole or tear in it; can interfere with normal hearing and cause other ear problems)

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

ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)

 Context examples 

Perfusion is performed under the surgical microscope by inserting the needle in the posterior-inferior aspect of the tympanic membrane.

(Intratympanic Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

A tympanometry test result indicating the lack of movement of the tympanic membrane due to middle ear pathology.

(Flat Tympanometry Result, NCI Thesaurus)

The outer ear consists of the auricle, the ear canal as well as the tympanic membrane.

(Ear, NCI Thesaurus)

The movement of the tympanic membrane in response to air pressure changes in the external ear facilitates the transmission of sound energy by causing vibration of the ossicular chain.

(Murine Tympanic Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

It may lead to numerous complications, such as pseudomediastinum (air trapped in the chest between both lungs), perforation of the tympanic membrane (perforated eardrum), and even rupture of a cerebral aneurysm (ballooning blood vessel in the brain), they explain.

(Blocking A Sneeze, Man Ruptures Throat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The middle ear is made up of an air-filled cavity behind the tympanic membrane that contains the ossicles (malleus, incus and stapes).

(Ear, NCI Thesaurus)