tympanic plate
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Related to tympanic plate: tympanic bone, spine of sphenoid, tympanic plate of temporal bone, tympanic sulcus, squamotympanic fissure
tympanic plate
The bony plate between the anterior wall of the external auditory meatus and the tympanum.
See also: plate
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