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Definition of Tympanic cavity
1. Noun. The main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear.
Terms within: Bonelet, Ossicle, Ossiculum, Auditory Tube, Eustachian Tube, Hammer, Malleus, Anvil, Incus, Stapes, Stirrup
Group relationships: Auditory Apparatus
Generic synonyms: Bodily Cavity, Cavity, Cavum
Medical Definition of Tympanic cavity
1. An air chamber in the temporal bone containing the ossicles; it is lined with mucous membrane and is continuous with the auditory tube anteriorly and the tympanic antrum and mastoid air cells posteriorly. Synonym: cavitas tympanica, cavity of middle ear, cavum tympani, tympanum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympanic Cavity
Literary usage of Tympanic cavity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The tympanic cavity is a small chamber, filled with air, which is placed between
the bottom of the meatus externus and the internal ear or labyrinth (Fig. ..."
2. The Lancet (1843)
"The following is a tabular view of the state of the mucous membrane of the tympanic
cavity in the 120 dissections related in the paper:— In the First Stage ..."
3. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear: Medical and Surgical by William Lincoln Ballenger (1914)
"THE tympanic cavity; TYMPANUM; CAVUM TYMPANI The tympanic cavity is the space
between the tympanic orifice of the Eustachian tube and the mastoid ..."
4. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"tympanic cavity or Middle Ear.—The tympanum is a small chamber filled with air,
... The tympanic cavity consists of (i) an upper part, which extends upwards ..."
5. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"The Development of the Tubo-tympanic Cavity, External Auditory Meatus and Tympanum.
These structures develop directly or indirectly from the first or ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But on ite inside the tympanic membrane bounds the tympanic cavity, ... The air
in tha tympanic cavity immediately rushing through the ..."
7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The middle ear or tympanic cavity is an irregular, laterally compressed space
... The tympanic cavity consists of two parts: the tympanic cavity proper, ..."
8. The Elements of Embryology by Michael Foster, Francis Maitland Balfour (1883)
"obliterated at an early date, but from the inner part of the cleft a diverticulum
is given off towards the exterior, which becomes the tympanic cavity. ..."
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