What's the difference between hearing and tympanum?

Hearing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hear
  • (n.) The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.
  • (n.) Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
  • (n.) A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.
  • (n.) Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
  • (2) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
  • (3) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
  • (4) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (5) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (6) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
  • (7) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
  • (8) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
  • (9) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
  • (10) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (11) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
  • (12) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
  • (13) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (14) The present study observed that a 40-dB hearing loss, beginning at 17 days postpartum, requires 2 days before it induces susceptibility to audiogenic seizures.
  • (15) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
  • (16) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (17) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
  • (18) Proper education of both managment and labor can result in successful hearing conservation programs.
  • (19) Most patients manifest either vertigo, tinnitus, or a variable hearing loss.
  • (20) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.

Tympanum


Definition:

  • (n.) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.
  • (n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
  • (n.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
  • (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.
  • (n.) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
  • (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To test ciliary clearance, the fluid was placed in either the tympanum or the mastoid bulla.
  • (2) These areas are the anterior epi-tympanum, the recess between the tympanic membrane and the anterior and inferior canal walls, the facial ridge and the sump that can form behind it, the sino-dural angle and the mastoid tip.
  • (3) This study has demonstrated the anatomical relations of the cochlea to structures in the medial wall of the tympanum, and has shown that surgical access can be obtained to the terminal auditory nerve fibres supplying the basal, middle and apical turns of the cochlea.
  • (4) From this preliminary investigation, the device successfully maintained atmospheric pressures in the tympanum, compensated for Eustachian tube malfunction, prevented otorrhea and recurrence of middle ear effusions.
  • (5) Temperature within the brain and the esophagus and at the tympanum were obtained in a 12-yr-old male in a series of experiments that began 8 days after surgery for implantation of a drainage catheter.
  • (6) This is invariably indicated on a pre-operative basis, except in two circumstances: --when the glomus, tumour is small and situated close to the drum of the tympanum, its surgical excision posing no problem of haemostasis under these circumstances: --when radiotherapy is envisaged as treatment of the glomus tumour when surgery is impossible.
  • (7) Although the clinical importance of these differences remains to be established, the authors believe they are substantial enough to justify continued use of tympanostomy tubes in the primary surgical therapy of chronic secretory otitis media, when medical therapy and observation indicate the need for drainage to improve hearing or correct anatomic deformities of the tympanum.
  • (8) The thick tympanum, while disadvantageous as an aerial receptor, likely enhances low-frequency bone conduction hearing.
  • (9) The inflammatory process, issuing from the external auditory passage and under circumvention of the tympanum, spreads to the skull base and according to the localisation causes adequate pareses of the brain nerves.
  • (10) Massive discharge occurred only with low viscosity fluid placed in the tympanum, whereas small amounts of highly viscous fluid were cleared by linear discharge.
  • (11) Otorrhea is the most common complication of surgical drainage of the tympanum for the treatment of chronic secretory otitis media.
  • (12) The authors report six cases of rare ear diseases: fibrous dysplasia of the tympanum mimicking an partially obstructive osteoma of the external auditory canal.
  • (13) The tube with a beveled head and split shank is very convenient and effective for the treatment since it is not only easily inserted but also easily removed, preventing it from migration into the tympanum.
  • (14) The existing peri-ligamentous space of the disco-malleolar ligament is a latent way between temporomandibular joint rear and tympanum.
  • (15) It has been assumed that the common inheritance of all early tetrapods was a light, rod-like stapes associated with a temporal notch in the otic region that was thought to have supported a tympanum, or eardrum.
  • (16) Seromucous effusions were found in the tympanum in 91% of 208 cases of cleft palate.
  • (17) The experimental evidence of cochleovestibular toxicity of aminoglycosides applied locally in the presence of a perforated tympanum leaves no room for doubt.
  • (18) Insertion of tympanostomy tubes to provide prolonged aeration and drainage of the tympanum in cases of chronic secretory otitis media has become the most commonly performed operation in children.
  • (19) In all animals, nontympanic surfaces were most responsive to low frequencies, and the tympanum was most responsive to high frequencies.
  • (20) The method seems to have the following merits: permanent ventilation of the tympanum with preservation of an intact drum (from the functional point of view); no tympanophonia or autophonia; simple technique, short operative period (five minutes); no risk of postoperative complications; and no danger of ascending infection of the middle ear from the ear canal.