tympanic membrane
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"The ear drum, or tympanic membrane, is a thin, flat piece of tissue that stretches across the ear canal," said Hoberman.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
Presley, R. Lizards, mammals and the primitive tetrapod tympanic membrane.
From Nature ● Nov. 12, 2017
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
The tympanic membrane is commonly called the ear drum.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
"You have not explained the phenomenon; how does that tympanic membrane communicate with the brain?"
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
