What's the difference between tympano and tympany?
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.
Tympany
Definition:
(n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
(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.