Words and phrases that have a meaning related to tympanum: (166 results)
Contains:
anvil, auditory tube, bonelet, eustachian tube, hammer, incus, malleus, ossicle, ossiculum, stapes, stirrup, umbo
Often used in the same context:
oculus, caryatids, quoins, flowerlike, fanlight, transept, reredos, tracery, crenellations, apse, cruciform, semicircles, acanthus, circlet, stalactite, quatrefoil, vitrine, ashlar, ogee, newel post, whorl, sepulchers, pilaster, oriel, isosceles, octagons, corbel, spandrels, verdigris, cavelike, campanile, rood screen, polyhedron, pediments, gambrel roof, gothic arch, serifs, chambered nautilus, romanesque, tesserae, lunette, entablature, masaccio, fauteuil, armillary, bentwood, palps, forewings, seraglio, velum, mullions, zithers, dentil, fritillary, pinna, naves, downy woodpecker, hieroglyph, gable roof, uvula, piero della francesca, stipple, conic, stonelike, concavity, grillwork, dapples, snaggletooth, bedframe, kettledrums, filigrees, polychrome, bass clef, lintel, protuberances, rhombus, arches, snuffbox, peapod, cartouche, bodkin, ankh, armature, occiput, wainscot, tragus, hexagram, porticoes, mihrab, fresnel lens, fingerlike, apatosaurus, armillary sphere, scalelike, bas relief, parallelogram, philtrum, hieratic, braincase, crosshatching, photogram, mansard, doorway, portal, pediment, gable, bay, doorways, gate, jamb, tower, wall, window, altarpiece, colonnade, crypt, door, hypogastric, pedimental, pterygoid, sculptured, figural, mithraic, relief, urethra, vulva, celiac, cerebellum, chancel, clavicle, cranium, cricoid, cycladic, diencephalon, duodenum, foreground, freestanding
Part of:
auditory apparatus, ear
More general:
bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, membrane, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, tissue layer
Synonyms:
Also try:eardrum, kettle, kettledrum, middle ear, timpani, tympani, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane
— Adjectives for tympanum: central, posterior, large, sculptured, carved, left, plain, triangular, semicircular, romanesque, right, more...
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