tympanic bone

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   the bone enclosing the middle ear

   Broaderbone

   Part oftemporal bone

Questions about tympanic bone

What does tympanic bone mean?

tympanic bone means "the bone enclosing the middle ear".

Is tympanic bone a common word?

tympanic bone 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.