On the other side of the tympanum is a small air-filled space called the tympanic cavity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

It is called the tympanic antrum, and must be distinguished from the mastoid cells, though it communicates with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5a. 4. The Temporal Bone] Reference

Also called the tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [eardrum] Reference

The lower half of the cochlea is the tympanic canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Always check the tympanic membranes of an infant with a cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Then too, my tympanic membranes have grown too wide and thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

L, tensor tympani muscle; between M and K is the tympanic cavity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

This is the tympanum (tim'puh-num; "drum" L), or tympanic membrane. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The tympanic cavity communicates with the back part of the throat, by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The effect of her plucking and slithering was more tympanic than melodic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Chronic infection of the middle ear with perforation of the tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The dancers broke apart and started gyrations that suited the tympanic melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contests galore] Reference

Impedance matching of the tympanic middle ear occurred very early in amniote evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Decade Spanning Single Exchange] Reference

This, in turn, may lead to a chronic inflammation of the canal and of the tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Meanwhile I'm aching to pick up the phone and rupture the crazy old biddy's tympanic membranes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just when I thought the holidays were perfect, Crazy Mother bites me in the ass.] Reference

The external canal was swollen shut, therefore I was unable to visualize the tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Case: Taste Disturbance, Otitis Externa and Other Symptoms (Part 1)] Reference

Her voice was low, tympanic, as if her nasal passages were large enough for the storage of melons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Acute otitis with fever, intense pain, and an inflamed distended non-perforated tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

There was a tiny bit of dried blood from a scratch in the ear canal; the tympanic membrane was intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

The plate of the stirrup is fixed by a membrane into the oval window of the inner wall of the tympanic chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

For defense they can display their dewlap, which has sub-tympanic discs that mimic large eyes in order to fool predators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iguana Project] Reference

It might be, however, that low frequencies, for example received by the lungs, would have alternate, non-tympanic pathways.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Decade Spanning Single Exchange] Reference

This tube is about one and a half inches long and lined with mucous membrane similar to that of the tympanic chamber and the throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The whole structure from the tympanum to this small opening, including the tympanic cavity and the ossicles, is called the middle ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Now the vibrations of the tympanic membrane are passed along the chain of bones attached to its inner surface and reach the stirrup bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

And there's one little problem with that: the dead anti-mutant's tympanic membrane continued to be responsive about 2 hours after he died.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man with Two Faces]

Waves of sound reach the ear, and are directed by the concha to the external passage, at the end of which they reach the tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The tympanic bulla of the dog is not indicated in Diagram.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Helps maintain equal pressure on both sides of tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The tympanic membrane is then sought for and its appearance noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Rarely is the outer surface of the tympanic membrane itself involved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Changes in pressure cause pressure buildup and/or rupture of tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A tightly stretched membrane, the tympanic membrane, separates this from the drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The abdomen may increase suddenly in volume from accumulation of gas in tympanic colic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Turnbull has recorded two cases of perforation of the tympanic membrane from lumbricoides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Just thinking about the noise this thing is going to make sends chills down my tympanic membrane!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

In one of the cases the larvae entered the drum-cavity through a rupture in the tympanic membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference