The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.
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Hollowness.
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A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing…
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One who beats a drum.
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One who beats a drum.
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An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
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An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
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An anvil.
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The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manub…
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A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
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Same as Ossicle.
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The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
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A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap…
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The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
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The organ of hearing; the external ear.
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The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.
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A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
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A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.
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of Timpano
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of Tympano
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