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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated behind the tympanic bone, or external auditory meatus.
  • noun The post-tympanic bone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Situated behind the tympanum.

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post- +‎ tympanic

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