(n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.
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.
Tympano
Definition:
(n.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Tympano-cartilago-stapediopexy was performed in the other 95 cases by using tragal cartilage and perichondrium over the stapes.
(3) The experience with 1.645 transplantation procedures by ENT surgeons, trained in tympano-ossicular allograft technique following J. Marquet, is reported.
(4) Postoperative middle ear function (tympano-and stapesplastics) is discussed by threshold shift caused by pressure evoked dislocation of the middle ear transmission system (tympano audiometry).
(5) It was thus possible to establish an index (stapes motility index, SMI) to represent the degree of normal stapes motility as a function of the subject's age and thus, through variations in this index, identify alterations to the motility of the tympano-ossicular system caused by ongoing disease processes and by surgery.
(6) The only exception to this regular behavior is the pathological picture in which the structure or the dynamic of the tympano-ossicular system is remarkably anomalous (cholesteatoma and otitis media) where there are flat tympanograms.
(7) Following a few European and American authors, we have undertaken tympano-ossicular homografts at the Hotel-Dieu de Quebec.
(8) Lesions included prolapse of the internal jugular vein sinus into the tympanic cavity, an aberrant trajectory of the internal carotid artery in the middle ear and a tympano-jugular glomus tumor.
(9) Tympano-ossiculoplasty gives on the whole, good results.
(10) Numerous techniques and many materials are available to the surgeon for the reconstruction of defects of the tympano-ossicular system.
(11) The temporal fascia is inserted between the fibrous layer of the tympanic remnant and a single pedunculated tympano-meatal cutaneous flap replaced in the original location.
(12) In this article, the authors stress three fundamental points in the diagnostic and therapeutic angiographic study of tympano-jugular glomus tumours.
(13) After a brief summary of the technique used for myringoplasty (enlarged endaural approach, large flattened aponeurotic graft applied to deep surface of tympano-meatal flap after a "request" for boring) emphasis is given to the need for strict surveillance and postoperative care by the surgeon.
(14) Let us pay the greatest respect to the malleus and make use of the tympano-mallear complex during ossicular reconstruction.
(15) Improvement in hearing was achieved after tympano-cartilago-stapediopexy.
(16) We present a prosthesis meant to replace the tympano-ossicular set as well as the measuring apparatus for developing and characterizing this prosthesis.
(17) The purpose of our work was to analyze the morphology and the physiology of the tympano-ossicular allografts used for reconstruction of the middle ear.
(18) The aim of this study is to point out some anatomical and physiological characteristics concerning the tympano-ossicular system, in the view to contribute to the elaboration of an optimal prosthesis of the middle ear.
(19) An analysis has been subsequently conducted in normal subjects and in patients affected by pathologies of the tympano-ossicular system; otosclerosis, tympanosclerosis, unilateral complete suprastapedial facial paralysis, interrumption of the ossicular chain; in cases of interruption of the afferent arc: section of the unilateral lingual nerve; involvement of its central portion: cerebello-pontine angle tumour, brain stem tumour.
(20) An analysis has been subsequently conducted in normal subjects and in patients affected by pathology of the tympano-ossicular system: tympanosclerosis, otosclerosis, suprastapedial facial paralysis; in cases of interruption of the afferent arch: section of the homo-lateral lingual nerve; in cases of involvement of its central portion: cerebello-pontine-angle tumours; and in cases of section of chorda tympani.