tympani in English

noun
1
the tympanic membrane or eardrum.
Males call not in choruses, but individually, though adults of both sexes appear to lack tympana (eardrums).
2
a vertical recessed triangular space forming the center of a pediment, typically decorated.
The cathedral of St-Etienne dates from the eleventh century but its north portal with its distinctive, well preserved tympanum depicting the Ascension instead of the more typical Last Judgement was carved in the next century.

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1. Objective: To analysis the incidence of large sinus tympani and provide valuable reference for clinical otology by HRCT.

2. The spiral of the Cochlea is separated by the osseous spiral lamina and consists of the scala tympani (lower portion), scala media and …

3. The superior wall or roof of the mastoid Antrum is known as the tegmen mastoideum, which continues anteriorly as the tegmen tympani.

4. We describe a patient with carotid dissection and ipsilateral ageusia in the anterior two thirds of the tongue, presumably from a lesion of the chorda tympani.

5. Ageusia in carotid dissection is explained by the close anatomic relation of the internal carotid artery and the chorda tympani in the short petrous bone. However, since extension of the space-occupying, dissecting intramural hematoma into the carotid channel as in our patient occurs infrequently – a probable precondition for the chorda tympani lesion – loss of taste is accordingly very rare.

6. The Cochlea is a shell-like structure of the inner ear which is comprised of two canals (the Scala vestibule and the Scala tympani) and the organ of Corti

7. The Cochlea has a base (= screw head) and an apex (=point) two membranes extend from the spiral lamina to the lateral wall of the Cochlea, dividing the bony Cochlea into 3 compartments: scala vestibuli, scala tympani and scala media (= Cochlear duct) the scalae wind around the modiolus ~3 times, defining apical, middle and basal turns

8. The Advanced Bionics family of 16-electrode arrays includes the HiFocus™ Mid-Scala (Figure 5.10), which has a formed precurved electrode array structure and is designed to “free float” in the scala tympani in order to reduce the risk of damage to the delicate structures of the cochlear upon insertion through the round window.

9. It is located at the bottom of a funnel-shaped depression (the round window niche) and, in the macerated bone, opens into the cochlea of the internal ear; in the fresh state it is closed by a membrane, the secondary tympanic membrane (Latin: membrana tympani secundaria, or membrana fenestrae Cochleae) or round window membrane, which is a

10. They included twelve genera and proposed five synapomorphies for the tribe: presence of a pair of mammae on the chest; a long palate marked by posterolateral palatal pits, perforations near the third molar; absence of an alisphenoid strut, which in some sigmodontines separates two foramina (openings) in the skull; absence of a suspensory process of the squamosal bone attached to the roof of the tympanic cavity, the tegmen tympani; and absence of a gall bladder.