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
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
In the embryo of the higher Vertebrates it closes up in the centre, and thus forms the tympanic membrane.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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