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TYMPANUM

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Irregular inflected form: tympana  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on itplay

Synonyms:

kettle; kettledrum; timpani; tympani; tympanum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tympanum" is a kind of...):

percussion instrument; percussive instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another)

Derivation:

timpanist; tympanist (a person who plays the kettledrums)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The membrane in the ear that vibrates to soundplay

Synonyms:

eardrum; myringa; tympanic membrane; tympanum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tympanum" is a kind of...):

membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)

Meronyms (parts of "tympanum"):

umbo (a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tympanum"):

perforated eardrum (an eardrum with a hole or tear in it; can interfere with normal hearing and cause other ear problems)

Holonyms ("tympanum" is a part of...):

ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner earplay

Synonyms:

middle ear; tympanic cavity; tympanum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tympanum" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Meronyms (parts of "tympanum"):

bonelet; ossicle; ossiculum (a small bone; especially one in the middle ear)

auditory tube; Eustachian tube (either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum)

hammer; malleus (the ossicle attached to the eardrum)

anvil; incus (the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes)

stapes; stirrup (the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea)

Holonyms ("tympanum" is a part of...):

auditory apparatus (all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears)

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