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tympanic membrane

NOUN
eardrum
Synonyms
STRONG


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The researchers used 921 videos from the training library to teach two different AI models to detect AOM by looking at features of the tympanic membrane, including shape, position, color and translucency.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

The malleus attaches at three points to the interior surface of the tympanic membrane.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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 surface of the auricle is convoluted to collect and transmit the vibrations of air by which sound is produced the auditory canal conducts these vibrations to the tympanic membrane.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.