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TYMPANIC BONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tympanic bone mean?
• TYMPANIC BONE (noun)
The noun TYMPANIC BONE has 1 sense:
1. the bone enclosing the middle ear
Familiarity information: TYMPANIC BONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bone enclosing the middle ear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("tympanic bone" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
Holonyms ("tympanic bone" is a part of...):
os temporale; temporal bone (a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear)
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