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By tightening the muscles surrounding its eardrum and extending its abdomen, the male cicada can alter the volume and pitch of its love song.
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The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2024
Blowing excessively hard can puncture your eardrum. 6.
—Blane Bachelor, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
For example, UnitedHealthcare, citing Data iSight, offered Dr. Darius Kohan roughly 350 percent of the Medicare rate for a surgery to repair a patient’s eardrum.
—Chris Hamby, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The rotating blades create a low pressure zone that can cause the bats’ eardrums and lungs to burst.
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
In the middle ear, the spot inside the eardrum that turns vibrations in the air into ripples in the inner ear’s fluids has three bones.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
Open earphones are tuned to compensate for the bass loss that happens when there’s no sealed tunnel between speaker and eardrum.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
It’s got the energy of a night blowing your eardrums out on a subterranean dance floor, or an antiwar protest at a heavy EDM concert, and Tansini’s twisting, exacting limbs and feather-fringed, severe gaze are captivating.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
If my kick drum is absolutely smashing my eardrums in a sonic assault upon all that is good and decent, well—turn it down.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2024
Blowing excessively hard can puncture your eardrum. 6.
—Blane Bachelor, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
For example, UnitedHealthcare, citing Data iSight, offered Dr. Darius Kohan roughly 350 percent of the Medicare rate for a surgery to repair a patient’s eardrum.
—Chris Hamby, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The rotating blades create a low pressure zone that can cause the bats’ eardrums and lungs to burst.
—Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
In the middle ear, the spot inside the eardrum that turns vibrations in the air into ripples in the inner ear’s fluids has three bones.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
Open earphones are tuned to compensate for the bass loss that happens when there’s no sealed tunnel between speaker and eardrum.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
It’s got the energy of a night blowing your eardrums out on a subterranean dance floor, or an antiwar protest at a heavy EDM concert, and Tansini’s twisting, exacting limbs and feather-fringed, severe gaze are captivating.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
If my kick drum is absolutely smashing my eardrums in a sonic assault upon all that is good and decent, well—turn it down.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
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eardrum
noun
ear·drum
-ˌdrəm 
: the thin membrane that separates the outer and middle ear and carries sound waves as vibrations to the chain of tiny bones in the middle ear
called also tympanic membrane, tympanum
Medical Definition
eardrum
noun
ear·drum
-ˌdrəm
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