timpano

Also known as tympanic membrane, ear drum, myringa

membrana semitrasparente facente parte dell'orecchio medio

AI overview

Your eardrum is a thin, cone-shaped membrane inside your ear that separates your outer ear from your middle ear and plays a crucial role in hearing. When sound waves hit it, the eardrum vibrates and passes these vibrations along to tiny bones in your middle ear, which then transmit them to the fluid-filled part of your ear that allows you to actually perceive sound.

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Within Vinony's link graph, timpano is referenced by 438 other articles, and connects out to semicircular canal, outer ear and Eustachian tube.

It is catalogued under topics including Auditory system, Ear and Human anatomy.

Its subject is documented across 61 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Anatomy.Name: Eardrum
Anatomy.Latin: membrana tympanica; myringa
Anatomy.Image: Blausen 0328 EarAnatomy.png
Anatomy.Image2: View-normal-tympanic-membrane.png
Anatomy.Caption2: Right eardrum as seen through a speculum

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Research

14,578 papers

Otitis media.ReviewNature reviews. Disease primers · 2016Schilder AG, Chonmaitree T, Cripps AW et al.DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.63
Effect of eardrum perforation and chronic otitis media on the results of infrared tympanic thermometer in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2023Kim YH, Park HJ, Yoo JHDOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000035932
3D printing technology and applied materials in eardrum regeneration.ReviewJournal of biomaterials science. Polymer edition · 2023Hu H, Chen J, Li S et al.DOI: 10.1080/09205063.2022.2147350
Physical correlates of eardrum rupture.ReviewThe Annals of otology, rhinology & laryngology. Supplement · 1989Richmond DR, Yelverton JT, Fletcher ER et al.DOI: 10.1177/00034894890980s507
Eardrum regeneration: membrane repair.Nature · 2017Holmes DDOI: 10.1038/546S5a
The discordant eardrum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2006Fay JP, Puria S, Steele CRDOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603898104
Mixed hearing loss with normal eardrum.European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases · 2021Fieux M, Podeur F, Tringali SDOI: 10.1016/j.anorl.2020.10.003
The inferiorly bulging eardrum.European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases · 2022Ciavarro G, Di Berardino F, Zanetti DDOI: 10.1016/j.anorl.2021.08.013

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Wikidata facts

Part of: tympanic cavity
Image: Normal Tympanic Membrane Chorda Tympani Nerve Visible.jpg
Connects with: malleus
Has use: hearing

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studied by: audiology
NCI Thesaurus ID: C12502
anatomical location: outer ear
Commons category: Eardrum

Sources (8)

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Article · Italiano

Il timpano o membrana timpanica è una sottile membrana semitrasparente facente parte dell'orecchio medio situata al termine del condotto uditivo esterno separandolo dalla cassa del timpano. La sua funzione consiste nel trasmettere le vibrazioni generate dalle onde sonore alla catena degli ossicini, costituita in senso latero-mediale (dall'esterno verso l'interno) da martello, incudine e staffa. Presenta una forma ad imbuto ellittico con un asse verticale maggiore di 9-10 mm, un asse orizzontale di circa 8-9 mm, una concavità laterale e una convessità mediale. Ha un'inclinazione di 55° con il pavimento del condotto uditivo esterno e rivolge la sua faccia laterale in basso leggermente in avanti. Ha uno spessore di circa 0,1 mm e una superficie di circa 85 mm2.

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