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PRONUNCIATION OF TYMPANIC BONE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TYMPANIC BONE

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Tympanic bone is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TYMPANIC BONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tympanic part of the temporal bone

The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squama, in front of the mastoid process, and surrounding the external acoustic meatus. It originates as a separate bone, which in some mammals stays separate through life. In evolution, a portion of it is derived from the angular bone of the reptilian lower jaw.

Definition of tympanic bone in the English dictionary

The definition of tympanic bone in the dictionary is the part of the temporal bone in the mammalian skull that surrounds the auditory canal.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TYMPANIC BONE

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tympani
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tympanic membrane
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WORDS THAT END LIKE TYMPANIC BONE

bone
cartilage bone
close to the bone
crazy bone
dog and bone
frontal bone
funny bone
heel bone
hyoid bone
leg bone
marrow bone
occipital bone
parietal bone
pin bone
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shin bone
skin and bone
sphenoid bone
temporal bone
thigh bone
zygomatic bone

Synonyms and antonyms of tympanic bone in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tympanic bone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TYMPANIC BONE

Find out the translation of tympanic bone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tympanic bone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tympanic bone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鼓室骨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hueso timpánico
570 millions of speakers

English

tympanic bone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मध्य कर्ण हड्डी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العظم الطبلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Тутрашсит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

osso timpânico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টাইমপ্যানিক হাড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

os tympanique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tulang tympanic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Paukenknochen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

鼓膜骨
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고막 골
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Trombolan timpa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xương nhĩ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிம்மானிக் எலும்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टायपेपिक हाड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Timpanik kemik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

osso timpanica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bębenkowej kości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Тутрашсіт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

os timpanice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τυμπανικού οστού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

timpaniese been
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tympanic ben
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tromme bein
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tympanic bone

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TYMPANIC BONE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TYMPANIC BONE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tympanic bone

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TYMPANIC BONE»

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Temporal Bone: A Manual for Dissection and Surgical Approaches
The temporal component of the jugular foramen can be seen anteromedial to the stylomastoid foramen and medial to both the tympanic bone and the styloid process. From the lateral border of the foramen, the jugular spine of the temporal  ...
Mario Sanna, Tarek Khrais, 2011
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Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
In some opossum specimens, the tympanic bone is preserved as a delicate horseshoe-shaped structure lying posterolateral to the cavity in the bulla. In life, the tympanic ring supports the tympanic membrane (eardrum) which separates the ...
Marvalee H. Wake, 1992
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Morphology of the Auditory and Vestibular Organs in Mammals, ...
The tympanic bone is composed of thin osseous walls, forming the tympanum, in which the elements of the middle ear are located. The inner ear is situated in periotic bone. In the family Delphinidae, the tympanic bulla is organized according ...
Galina Nikolaevna Solnt͡seva, 2007
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Imaging of the Temporal Bone
The inner mucosal layer is derived from the endo- derm of the first pharyngeal pouch.30 The tympanic ring (tympanic bone) is formed in membranous bone from four ossification centers. It is virtually completely developed by the 15th week of ...
Joel D. Swartz, Laurie A. Loevner, 2011
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution: 3rd Edn
In a lemur (Lemur), the tympanic bone is ring-shaped and is suspended within the bony bullar cavity. In lorises, the tympanic bone lies at the edge of the middle ear cavity and is connected to the wall of the bulla; note also that the bulla cavity is ...
John G. Fleagle, 2013
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Hearing Loss
Inferiorly, the squamous portion articulates with the tympanic bone at the tympanosquamous suture. A hiatus between the tympanic and squamous portions superiorly is termed the notch of Rivinus. Anterior to the external auditory meatus and ...
Peter S. Roland, William L. Meyerhoff, Bradley F. Marple, 1997
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Whales of the World
In addition, various bones of the ear, including the three little bones of the middle ear, have become thick and dense in structure and the tympanic bulla of the tympanic bone has developed into a very heavy, dense, hard, bean-shaped capsule ...
Spencer Wilkie Tinker, 1988
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
The tympanic bone is bowl-shaped, and houses the middle ear cavity. The lateral wall of the tympanic bone is thin, like in mammals in general; in odontocetes this wall is called the tympanic plate. The medial part of the tympanic is thick and ...
William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009
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Clinical Otology
An inferior projection of the tympanic bone, the vaginal process, forms a sheath for the styloid bone. At the medial aspect of the tympanic bone is a groove (the annular sulcus), deficient superiorly (the notch of Rivinus), which houses the ...
Gordon B. Hughes, Myles L. Pensak, 2011
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Hearing by Whales and Dolphins
To put the size range of cetacean temporal bones into perspective, a blue whale ( B. musculus) periotic bulla is approximately the size of a human brain, and with the tympanic bone attached, the complete blue whale ear complex weighs well ...
Whitlow W.L. Au, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, 2000

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TYMPANIC BONE»

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DI resident's message fro the ICU: Helmets are 'adorkable'
The scans also pointed to a fracture in the tympanic bone by her right ear and a hole in her right ear drum. After days of thoughtful and thorough in-patient care, ... «Daniel Island News, Nov 11»
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Are Bats Blind?
“In any echolocating bat, the stylohyal bone is at least physically touching or even fused to the tympanic bone,” Fenton said. When scientists examined O. finneyi, ... «Discovery News, May 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Tympanic bone [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tympanic-bone>. May 2024 ».
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