A thin membrane covered by skin that separates the outer ear from the middle ear; also called the tympanic membrane
A thin membrane, called the tympanic membrane, which vibrates when struck by sound traveling down the ear canal This vibration displaces the attached bones of the middle ear (the ossicles)
Your eardrums are the thin pieces of tightly stretched skin inside each ear, which vibrate when sound waves reach them. a tight thin piece of skin over the inside of your ear which allows you to hear sound
A membrane that stretches across the inner end of the external ear canal and forms the outer boundary of the middle ear It reacts to sound waves and starts the ossicular chain moving It is about 1/3 inch (7 or 8 mm) in diameter syn: tympanic membrane, drum membrane, drumhead
The eardrum (or tympanic membrane) stretches across the inner end of the external ear canal and forms the outer boundary of the middle ear It reacts to sound waves and starts the ossicular chain moving