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TYMPANIC CAVITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear
Synonyms:
middle ear; tympanic cavity; tympanum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tympanic cavity" is a kind of...):
bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)
Meronyms (parts of "tympanic cavity"):
bonelet; ossicle; ossiculum (a small bone; especially one in the middle ear)
auditory tube; Eustachian tube (either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum)
hammer; malleus (the ossicle attached to the eardrum)
anvil; incus (the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes)
stapes; stirrup (the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea)
Holonyms ("tympanic cavity" is a part of...):
auditory apparatus (all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears)
