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Bulla :: Bulla (n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla..

Tympanic :: Tympanic (a.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.

Drum :: Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane..

Malleus :: Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far..

Umbo :: Umbo (n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear..

Tympanic :: Tympanic (a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane..

Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..

Tympani :: Tympani (pl. ) of Tympan.

Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. i.) To drum.

Tympanist :: Tympanist (n.) One who beats a drum.

Post-tympanic :: Post-tympanic (a.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus..

Tympanal :: Tympanal (n.) Tympanic.

Meteorism :: Meteorism (n.) Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

Siphonium :: Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible..

Tympany :: Tympany (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.

Tympanitic :: Tympanitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites..

Columella :: Columella (n.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear..

Tympanites :: Tympanites (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

Tympanitis :: Tympanitis (n.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. t.) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum..

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