tympanic bone

English

Noun

tympanic bone (plural tympanic bones)

1. (anatomy) A bone of the skull which encloses part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane.

   Synonyms: tympanal, tympanic

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tympanic bone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

Tympanic part of the temporal bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia