tympanic

The equivalent of safety squints for your hearing would be conscious control of the tensor tympanic muscle.

The hearing aid you linked uses light to activate a transducer that's been placed against the tympanic membrane (eardrum).

My startup enigma.bio is working on low power laser spectroscopy blood analysis techniques inside the tympanic canal for the last 3 years.

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

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

Yawning alters the conformation of the external auditory canal by displacing the mandible, which articulates with the tympanic plate of the temporal bone adjacent to the canal.

I wonder if there’s any evidence of rudimentary surgeries (ie, shove a small sharp stick through the tympanic membrane) to relieve the painful pressure.

Body temperature ≤ 36.6 °C on the surface, ≤ 37.2 °C under the armpit and mouth or ≤ 37.8 °C in the rectum and tympanic membrane; Is this a standard criteria?

Even those with normal hearing do not process all sounds that arrive at out Tympanic Membranes (and if we did...we would likely go insane from over stimulation).

Not because headphones cause ongoing damage, but because my ears have been damaged by several rounds of tympanic perforations and ear infections since I was a wee one.

(this is because their common ancestor didn't have a tympanic ear).

If it's a middle ear infection (and that's usually what we're talking about), an ENT still has to deal with the fact that the tympanic membrane blocks access to the middle ear.

A nearby moth will drop suddenly when it detects the "echolocation pulse" with its tympanic membrane.

Also, "topical ear drop medications containing gentamycin or neomycin do not appear to be ototoxic in humans unless the tympanic membrane (ear drum) is perforated" [3].

There's probably a market for "audiophile" eardrops, to lubricate the outer ear, such that the sound waves effortlessly glide through the fleshy waveguide, to hit the tympanic membrane at optimum velocity - or something like that.

While this demonstrates that the locus of tympanic formation differs across vertebrates, the mechanism (fenestration and ossicles from mandibles) apparently remains the same - either way, I can't see how this is "case closed".

Tympanic membranes always clean (of course I don't clean them!