(n.) The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
(n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Temporal fascia placed medially to the tympanic remnants with the malleus handle exteriorized has been used successfully in over 1,200 tympanoplasties with adequate conization of the drumhead produced in most cases.
(2) This study was set up, prospectively, to determine factors affecting the long-term hearing results of patients undergoing incus transposition as a second stage in ossicular reconstruction, following a successful drumhead repair in non-cholesteatoma ears.
(3) We studied the external ear structures and the drumhead in 140 cadavers with no previous history of ear pathology.
(4) A technique of grafting tympanic membrane perforations which incorporates the sandwiching of a temporalis facial graft between the epithelial and connective tissue layers of the remaining drumhead is presented.
(5) The remnants of drumhead with keratotic and hyperplastic changes in the middle ear cleared themselves of the dye very slowly.
(6) Furthermore, this outward displacement of the stapes is not prerequisite for the outward movement of the malleus-drumhead complex, which typically appears at the contraction of the stapedius muscle.
(7) A routine meatoplasty on the right ear failed because of an unusual cephalad position of the drumhead in relation to a "downhill" position of the stenosed outer meatus.
(8) Detachment from the drumhead leaves the underlying epidermis intact.
(9) Ink dots applied to mammalian drumheads move in a similar fashion.
(10) Dots of Indian ink placed on the drumhead were followed for up to 10 weeks.
(11) It is further shown that the capacitance variation arises from a change in the membrane area as the membrane undergoes drumhead vibration.
Kettledrum
Definition:
(n.) A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.
(n.) An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like being inside a kettledrum with a whole symphony going on out there and with thunder in wraparound quadraphonic!"