tympanum

In humans, the stapes is not long enough to reach the tympanum.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

A fast-rising artist who had been commissioned at a young age to design the tympanum over the central doors of the National Cathedral, Hart was working in a long, historical tradition of realistic representation.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2017

Why, in my mind’s ear — the invisible tympanum against which every sentence must be tested.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011

“Mahna Mahna” is as catchy as a song can be, like a fishing hook stuck in your tympanum.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2011

The bright banners hanging from the tympanum proclaimed the word.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

These are the tympana or ear-drums of the ear of that leg.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir

The lateral entrances are sheltered by tympana and arches profusely decorated with statuettes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

I am from hence induc't to be of opinion that these tympana were made according to such and such proportions, suitable to such and such notes.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

They have less ornament, the medallions and the carved tympana of the nave being alike absent, although there are the same small heads at the angles of the pier arches.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

The tympana above this is pierced with eighteen windows filled with geometric tracery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums.

From Time Magazine Archive

The masons put together the pieces of the rose window and installed the tympanums and voussoirs over the doors.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

The lights, forming the tympanums of the porches, are thin sheets of alabaster.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins

The door head consists of three brick arches in relief with stucco tympanums or fillings.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman