eardrum
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1.5
- noun
- /ˈɪrˌdrʌm/
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tímpano
- Sound waves enter the external canal of the outer ear and strike the eardrum, causing it to vibrate.
- eardrum perforation
- intact eardrum
- eardrum to heal
And then my right eardrum breaks.
- And then my right eardrum breaks.
- Those come in through your ears and you have what's called your eardrum.
- Those air molecules, you know, get vibrated all the way to your your head, the pressure wave, and then it vibrates your eardrum.
- So sound goes into our eardrums and inside there there's a transducer that converts it to an electrical signal that then goes to the brain.
- Just whistling in your eardrums until you calm your ass down, man.
- You can have a perforated tympanic membrane or eardrum correcting that can make the tendencies go away.
Examples
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The blast was so tremendous that Chow thought his eardrums had ruptured.
Fiction book (1991) -
I could hear my heart, Laura's heart, beating in my eardrums so loudly it was painful.
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And then my right eardrum breaks.
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His left ear, it was so significant, they actually had to kind of rebuild his eardrum from it.
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And I can talk about this in a way because my eardrum is perforated.
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I'm sending sound waves to your eardrum.
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Deep cleaning also runs the risk of perforating your eardrum, which can cause permanent damage and hearing loss.
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And you can understand them because the waves of pressure that I'm creating stimulate your eardrums at the right frequencies and you convert that into sound.
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The external auditory canals and eardrums were intact, and the nose was clear anteriorly.
Academic text (2006) -
The doctor examined my eardrum to check if there was any damage from the loud noise.
Synonyms
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A thin skin between the outer ear and the middle ear that vibrates when sound hits it
A thin skin inside the ear that vibrates when sound reaches it
Compounds
- Specialized
An eardrum with a hole that can cause pain, hearing loss, and infection
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word eardrum is simply ear + drum. People compared the thin skin inside the ear to a musical drum because it 'vibrates' when sound reaches it, and those vibrations are how we hear.