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Breaths pant, pant, pant, pushing past my earbuds and into my eardrums.
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David Oliver, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Doctors repeatedly injected the steroid dexamethasone directly into his middle ear, through his eardrum.
—David Owen, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Elevating your head when sleeping may help promote drainage and keep fluid from building up and causing the eardrum to burst.13
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—Sherri Gordon, Health, 16 Apr. 2025
The wrestler reportedly suffered a busted eardrum and a black eye at the hands of the rapper.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2025
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David Oliver, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Doctors repeatedly injected the steroid dexamethasone directly into his middle ear, through his eardrum.
—David Owen, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Elevating your head when sleeping may help promote drainage and keep fluid from building up and causing the eardrum to burst.13
4.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 16 Apr. 2025
The wrestler reportedly suffered a busted eardrum and a black eye at the hands of the rapper.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Eardrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eardrum. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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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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