tympano-comb. form

1900 in W. A. N. Dorland Med. Dict. 724/1 Tympanectomy.

1900–13 in W. A. N. Dorland Med. Dict. at Abscess Tympanocervical a[bscess], an abscess arising in the tympanum and extending to the neck.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Tympano-Eustachian passage, the tympanum and Eustachian tube considered together as a branchial cleft.

1969 Arch. Otolaryngol. LXXXIX. 217/2 The tympanogram has a normal configuration.

1979 J. J. Knight in H. A. Beagley Auditory Investigation viii. 158 A flat tympanogram with a negative middle ear pressure is suggestive of serous otitis media.

1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 824/1 Surgery should not be undertaken until after tympanography has been done and tomograms taken to exclude abnormalities of cochlear anatomy.

1984 Lancet 19 May 1112/2 A sound case can be made for including tympanography in the routine screening tests at school entry.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iii. 81 The styloid process..is at birth separate from a little cylindrical piece of bone which afterwards forms its root, and which is called the tympano-hyal.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 78 At the end of the stylo-hyal is a cylindrical cartilage, the tympano-hyal.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tympanomalleal.

1900–13 in W. A. N. Dorland Med. Dict.

a1909 Starks Synon. Fish Skeleton 513 (Cent. D. Supp.).

1891 Cent. Dict. Tympanomandibular.

c1900 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 697 (Cent. D. Supp.) Tympano~mastoid.

1956 H. Anderson et al. in Acta Oto-Laryngol. XLVI. 384 This method—for which we propose the name tympanometry—may..yield very important additional information for the diagnosis of hearing impairments.

1980 H. Anderson et al. in Acta Oto-Laryngol. LXXXIX. 480/1 The patients were regularly checked with audiometry and tympanometry.

1970 Arch. Otolaryngol. XCII. 255/2 Tympanometric characteristics provide information in analysis of the conductive pathological abnormality.

1984 Jrnl. Speech & Hearing Res. 27 257 The influence that repeated tympanometric trials have on the aural~acoustic admittance characteristics of the middle-ear transmission system was studied in 24 young adults.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 8 A lamina of bone, which..serves..to keep the tympano-periotic..in place.

1871 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Vertebrated Animals viii. 405 When the tympano-periotic bone and all the facial bones are removed.

1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Tympanophony, abnormal sounds in the ear, as echoes, &c.

1955 Acta Oto-Laryngol. XLV. 457 It seems advisable in some cases..to operate in two stages: first a conservative radical operation..and, secondly, tympanoplasty.

1960 J. Grant Come again, Nurse xvi. 97 Now a tympanoplasty is different again. That is a plastic repair to the middle ear with a skin graft, to help the sound waves.

1977 Lancet 16 July 119/1 Grafting the drum constitutes the simplest and most successful form of tympanoplasty.

1955 Jrnl. Laryngol. & Otol. 69 654 Of 110 tympanoplastic cases..60 per cent. have retained or regained ‘social’ hearing.

1977 Lancet 16 July 119/2 Tympanoplastic surgery is a logical development of the modified radical techniques and aims to avoid their main disadvantages—deafness and an open cavity in the mastoid—by creating a functioning middle ear in a healthy closed system.

1961 A. S. MacNalty Brit. Med. Dict. 1491/1 Tympanosclerosis.

1965 I. B. Thorburn in W. G. Scott-Brown et al. Dis. Ear, Nose & Throat (ed. 2) II. xx. 454 Tympanosclerosis. Zöllner (1955) drew fresh attention to this condition which was first described as ‘Paukensclerose’ by von Tröltsch in 1873.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 71 354 Scars and tympanosclerosis were only present in the ears with grommets.

1965 I. B. Thorburn in W. G. Scott-Brown et al. Dis. Ear, Nose & Throat (ed. 2) II. xx. 454 On otomicroscopic examination a keratinizing appearance distinguishes cholesteatoma, whereas the white tympanosclerotic focus is covered by an intact healthy mucous membrane.

1981 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Feb. 501/1 Tympanosclerotic plaques are commonly seen in the drum after the use of grommets.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tympanosquamosal.

c1900 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 672 (Cent. D. Supp.) Tympanotomy.