TYMPANIC BONE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The bone enclosing the middle ear

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tympanic bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("tympanic bone" is a part of...):

os temporale; temporal bone (a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear)

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