Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The thin, semitransparent, oval-shaped membrane that separates the middle ear from the external ear. Also called tympanic membrane, tympanum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The middle ear; the tympanum. See tympanum, and first cut under ear.
- n. More especially, the tympanic membrane: as, to burst or puncture the ear-drum. See cuts under ear and tympanic.
Wiktionary
- n. A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The tympanum. See
Illust. of ear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
Etymologies
- ear + drum (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Amanpour's Trip To Egypt Shows 'This Week' Changes
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Ben instinctively yanked it back, but his eardrum felt punctured.”
“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)”
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Corinne McDermott: Crying Babies & Crybabies on a Plane...
“In order for an Atmospheric disturbance to inflict seismic tremors would be so powerful as to pop every eardrum of the people close enough to feel it.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The first eight minutes of ABC’s ‘V’
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