tympanic

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Percussion Percuss in all four quadrants  Categorize what you hear as tympanic or dull.

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  1. adjective Relating to or resembling a drum.
  2. adjective Anatomy Of or relating to the middle ear or eardrum.

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  • Healing time, long-term result and effects of stem cell treatment in acute tympanic membrane perforation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The stem cells were used in the right tympanic membrane perforation leaving the left tympanic membrane as a control. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • After half a year of observation the mechanical stiffness of the tympanic membrane was measured by moiré interferometry for group B and the morphological study was performed by light microscopy for both groups A and B and electron microscopy for group A. RESULTS: Stem cell treated ears did not show any enhanced healing of the perforation although a marked thickening of the lamina propria was observed compared with control group. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • After half a year the strength and the stiffness of the tympanic membrane was almost the same for both treated and untreated ears. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Stem cells and enhanced healing of chronic tympanic membrane perforation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin tympanum, drum; see tympanum.

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  1. from tympan (um) + -ic.
 

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/tɪmˈpænɪk/
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