middle ear

Questions about middle ear

What does middle ear mean?

middle ear means "the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear".

What is another word for middle ear?

Close synonyms include tympanic cavity, tympanum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is middle ear a common word?

middle ear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.