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eardrum
Part of speech: NounA thin membrane, like the head of a drum, that closes the cavity of the middle ear.
Usage examples "eardrum":- As they move away they make a little vacuum there and the eardrum puffs out. - "Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son", John Mills.
- Way back inside the ear is a little curtain, or eardrum, made of a thin membrane. - "The Insect Folk", Margaret Warner Morley.
- The tones rasped and rattled and jangled in the receiver, which, for the sake of his eardrum, Senator Corson held away from his head. - "All-Wool Morrison", Holman Day.