THE movements of the bones of the tympanum in connection with sound-waves were first observed and their excursions measured by Buck (“Archiv. of Ophthalmology and Otology,” vol. i., 1870), and ...

No, you can’t reach your tensor tympani with a Q-tip. Image via Research Gate. That rumbling is caused by a muscle in your middle ear stretching out. It’s called the tensor tympani, ...

Ohio-based healthcare startup Caring Things has joined the fledgling smart thermometer space with an ear bud-sized infrared thermometer that plugs directly into the audio jack of your smart phone.

Rumbling in the ear isn't usually a cause for concern. It's often due to a protective mechanism in your body that keeps sounds from being too loud to your ears. However, there are some medical ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Rupture of the Membrana Tympani ” in SA Supplements Vol. 10 No. 245supp (September 1880), p. 3906 doi:10. ...

Everard Home, The Croonian Lecture. On the Structure and Uses of the Membrana Tympani of the Ear. [Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of ...

No, you can’t reach your tensor tympani with a Q-tip. Image via Research Gate. That rumbling is caused by a muscle in your middle ear stretching out. It’s called the tensor tympani, ...

It's called chorda tympani. Narrator: That's right, the nerve for taste runs right through your middle ear. And if that nerve gets damaged, you could alter or even lose your sense of taste ...

It's all to do with the tensor tympani muscle. One study from 2013 stated: ‘The tensor tympani muscle is the largest muscle within the middle ear.Its voluntary contraction is a very unusual event.