Tympani in a sentence as a noun

It's not blood but the vibrations of the tensor tympani muscle.

That's one of the automatic functions of the tensor tympani muscle.

I wish fire alarms did this for half a second before blasting your tympanic membrane with an ear-splitting noise.

Am I the only one who listened to the video and didn't have anything happen with my tensor tympani?

First, infrasound/near-DC pressure fluctuation triggers the tensor tympani reflex.

In theory, everyone should have to sit in a controlled environment before forehead testing, but at that point, may as well do tympanic checks.

"Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the tensor tympani muscle of the middle ear.

It could also be the tensor tympani muscle tightening in response to a visual event that would normally be accompanied by an extremely loud noise.

From Wikipedia: "in humans, the acoustic reflex only involves the contraction of the stapedius muscle -not the tensor tympani.

Tympani definitions

noun

a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it

See also: kettle kettledrum tympanum timpani