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eardrum

noun as in inside of ear

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An earache in a child with a perfectly normal exam is more difficult to figure out than one with a bulging and inflamed eardrum.

He also failed a drug test and allegedly hit a bouncer so hard he punctured his eardrum.

The chants grew louder before reaching an eardrum-piercing crescendo when the 2013 Arab Idol glided on stage.

Monsieur Le Grand drummed till my own eardrum was nearly cracked.

But that burden of sound was almost too over-ponderous for the bethundered eardrum!

There was no speckle of light to classify and ignore, no susurrus of air molecules raining against the eardrum.

If a shell goes off too near you and the eardrum suffers, Dr. McKernon will be on the job to find out if he can't make a new one.

So do the adjacent molecules of air and so does the eardrum of a listener.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eardrum, such as: tympanum, and tympanic membrane.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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