What's the difference between tympan and tympany?

Tympan


Definition:

  • (n.) A drum.
  • (n.) A panel; a tympanum.
  • (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.

Tympany


Definition:

  • (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
  • (n.) Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (2) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
  • (3) The threshold functions differ from those observed in patients with scala tympani electrodes, primarily at low sinusoidal frequencies and long pulse widths.
  • (4) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
  • (5) One group of rats was tested both before and after bilateral removal of the chorda tympani.
  • (6) Each mastoid and epitympanum was extensively involved with chronically inflamed tissue which surrounded the ossicles and chorda tympani nerve.
  • (7) Both chorda tympani of these and 4 control mice were later excised.
  • (8) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
  • (9) In this respect, round-window and scala tympani stimulation sites are equally efficacious.
  • (10) Click evoked electromyographic (EMG) recordings were made from the contralateral tensor tympani muscle of anaesthetised mice.
  • (11) It was hypothesized that abnormal signals mediated by the chorda tympani nerve (CT) could be causally involved in NaCl avoidance by F344 rats.
  • (12) Ciliated and secretory cells were concentrated around the Eustachian tube orifice; additionally, ciliated cells were seen in two distinct bands extending posteriorly below the cochlea in the hypotympanum and above the cochlea toward the tensor tympani muscle.
  • (13) It is the purpose of this study to attempt a correlation of function, by electromyographic means, of the tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini muscles in humans.
  • (14) Taste sensitivity of preweanling mice was studied by examining responses of the chorda tympani (CT) and glossopharyngeal (GL) nerves to various taste stimuli, and was compared to that of adult mice.
  • (15) Beta-adrenergic blocking drugs reduced or abolished the hyperaemia of isoproterenol and reduced that of chorda tympani nerve stimulation.
  • (16) Only the scala tympani compartment of the basal cochlear turn remained patent.
  • (17) The results suggest that under physiological conditions the CSF also flows through the cochleae aqueduct and the protein concentration in the Scala tympani decreases especially in the basal winding.
  • (18) To determine whether changes in salt and sugar responses occur during development in the hamster, multifiber responses were recorded from the chorda tympani nerve while stimulating the anterior tongue of preweanling, early postweanling, and adult hamsters.
  • (19) Because there are a lot of contradictory opinions in the literature we investigated the intra- and extraosseous pathway of the Chorda tympani by dissecting the heads of 6 cadavers.
  • (20) The electrical activity in the chorda tympani proper nerve of two of the monkeys was recorded during the application to the tongues of 0.02% monellin and thaumatin, 0.5% miraculin and stimuli representing the four taste qualities.

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