VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / tympanic

Thesaurus: tympanic

Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. a. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the tympanum.
  3. n. The tympanic bone.
  4. adj. resembling a drum
  5. adj. associated with the eardrum
  6. 1. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum. Tympanic bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane. -- Tympanic membrane. (Anat.) See the Note under Ear. The tympanic bone.
  7. Of or pertaining to the tympanum. Tympanic bone (Anat.), a boneof the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports thetympanic membrane.-- Tympanic membrane. (Anat.) See the Note under Ear.
  8. j:100 a. resembling a drum a. associated with the eardrum