Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The thin, semitransparent, oval-shaped membrane that separates the middle ear from the external ear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The middle ear; the tympanum. See
tympanum , and first cut underear . - noun More especially, the tympanic membrane: as, to burst or puncture the ear-drum. See cuts under
ear and tympanic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The tympanum. See
Illust. ofear .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin membrane that separates the
outer ear from themiddle ear and transmits sound from the air to themalleus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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NEW YORK — Christiane Amanpour stood on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday in a khaki shirt with a backdrop of Cairo in crisis, rattling off reports from the street in Egypt and noting the presence of flyovers by fighter jets in what she described as eardrum-ripping sound.
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Christiane Amanpour stood on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday in a khaki shirt with a backdrop of Cairo in crisis, rattling off reports from the street in Egypt and noting the presence of flyovers by fighter jets in what she described as eardrum-ripping sound.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Cairo trip highlights shift for Amanpour Christiane Amanpour stood on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday in a khaki shirt with a backdrop of Cairo in crisis, rattling off reports from the street in Egypt and noting the presence of flyovers by fighter jets in what she described as eardrum-ripping sound.
The Seattle Times 2011
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If the eardrum is no longer physically connected to the inner ear, i.e. loss of a single ossicle, the impedance matching effectively reduces to zero (in fact "poor impedance matching" is just an oxymoron), but hearing does not require all parts of the system.
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Potential complications include: bleeding infection allergic reaction to X-ray dye (contrast reaction) dimpling or paleness at the injection site nerve injury injury to the eardrum (with TMJ only)
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The hearing in that ear was already impaired because an infection had been mistreated, and now she lost nearly all the hearing when a doctor, attempting to remove the rice, seems to have punctured her eardrum.
Saluting a Centennial Amy Finnerty 2012
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I had no idea how I was going to make it through the night, but in the early hours of Saturday morning my eardrum ruptured.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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On an airplane a baby may cry for their usual reasons, but they may also experience ear pain due to their narrower eustachian tubes behind the eardrum becoming blocked.
Corinne McDermott: Crying Babies & Crybabies on a Plane... Corinne McDermott 2011
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I had no idea how I was going to make it through the night, but in the early hours of Saturday morning my eardrum ruptured.
National Health Insurance Needed, Reason #247,342,589: desmoinesdem 2009
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Ben instinctively yanked it back, but his eardrum felt punctured.
Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011
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