What's the difference between drum and tympanic?

Drum


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
  • (n.) Anything resembling a drum in form
  • (n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
  • (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
  • (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
  • (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
  • (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
  • (n.) See Drumfish.
  • (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
  • (n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.
  • (v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
  • (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
  • (v. i.) To throb, as the heart.
  • (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
  • (v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.
  • (v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
  • (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
  • (2) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
  • (3) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (4) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
  • (5) The frequency of OKN was also decreased, and the total deviation of the eyes was reduced for OKN induced by these drum speeds.
  • (6) "A new generation picking up guitars and drums and saying, 'I'm here!
  • (7) It’s drummed into us from the first day of medical school: “First, do no harm.” We can do without tepid, faux-conflicted advice from the likes of Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS.
  • (8) The hydrolysate obtained was then subjected to two different dehydration techniques: drum drying at 121 degrees C and 18 seconds retention, and spray drying at 101 degrees C and 40 psi pressure.
  • (9) I've danced and I still want to dance," he said over the noise of drumming and honking cars.
  • (10) 5.55pm BST Can you hear the drums of doubt Fernando?
  • (11) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
  • (12) Lee sang, tap-danced and did comic turns before settling on the drums.
  • (13) Reitzell, who drums with Air, warns me during my nail-biting wait that Shields tends to work all night and sleep all day and never answers his phone.
  • (14) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .
  • (15) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
  • (16) Pro-China groups had been told they could not use drums to try to drown out rights activists .
  • (17) Overall, it's an attempt to portray most of a continent (and if you refer to his original speech , Pakistan as well) as an undifferentiated mass of uncivilised people who have just enough sophistication to rip us off by spending our money on sunglasses, but otherwise are happy with their drums.
  • (18) I am very clear that I want to ensure we get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom that works for everyone across the United Kingdom and all parts of the UK when we enter these negotiation,” said the prime minister in Wales, at the start of a whirlwind UK tour aimed at drumming up last-minute support from the devolved administrations.
  • (19) An endorsement like that goes a long way in Atlanta, and the rapper talked about Sanders’s civil rights background, calling him “a drum major for justice”.
  • (20) Thus, in the case of foaming capacity, losses ranging from 17% to 34% were detected in the drum-dried hydrolysate, and of 38% to 49% in the hydrolysate dehydrated using a spray drier, during the first two months of storage.

Tympanic


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.
  • (n.) The tympanic bone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
  • (2) Deep body temperature was recorded from the tympanic membrane, oral cavity, esophagus, and rectum.
  • (3) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
  • (4) Both tympanic and nontympanic pathways of sound reception are utilized by anuran amphibians.
  • (5) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
  • (6) An artist's rendition of the entire normal gerbil tympanic membrane is presented.
  • (7) The core temperature is taken from the rectum, the nasopharynx or tympanic membrane, and the peripheral temperature from the great toe.
  • (8) (2) Tympanometrically measured middle ear pressure (MEP) was almost equivalent to the actual MEP recorded by a manometer when the tympanic membrane was normal.
  • (9) These complications are of much higher frequency than after tympanoplasty with autograft, and indications for tympano-ossicular homografts are now limited to total tympanic destruction with absence of handle of malleus.
  • (10) Definitive degeneration and atrophic type changes were seen in all the parotid fragments removed six months after selective neurectomy of the tympanic plexus.
  • (11) During juvenile and adult life stages, the process becomes somewhat removed from the fenestra for obvious reasons, but at a gape of about 40 to 50 degrees it inevitably must touch the "inferior tympanic membrane" and possibly also the tympanic ring.
  • (12) On the other hand, the ciliary activity of the middle ear lining displays a varying pattern of reaction according to the locations within the tympanic cavity.
  • (13) Tympanometric findings could more often correctly suggest reduced tympanic membrane mobility than did otomicroscopy, but both methods gave an equally good indication of middle ear effusion.
  • (14) Ventilatory conditions, or the existence of soft tissue density, were evaluated by HRCT at such locations as the supratubal recess, mesotympanum, anterior and posterior parts of the tympanic isthmus, epitympanum, and mastoid antrum.
  • (15) Also the tympanic nerve and its course on the promontorium have been estimated.
  • (16) In this second report a sizable proportion of the men reported a history of otitis or otorrhea but had normal tympanic membranes.
  • (17) Above 5 kHz discrete resonances are observed, and the response varies strongly with position on the tympanic membrane.
  • (18) One problem remains: permanent aeration of the new tympanic cavity.
  • (19) Significant improvements in measurements of ear function also allow us to be more precise in the diagnoses of otosclerosis, perforation of the tympanic membrane, ossicular discontinuity, facial nerve dysfunction, and brain stem disorders.
  • (20) 1) When pressure was applied to the tympanic cavity, the curvature of the TM became small under negative pressure and large under positive pressure, with the displacement being greater under positive pressure.

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