Something examined with an otoscope

Usage examples of eardrum.

The door of the ladies room slammed shut, thus leaving the location of the mysterious transcript unspecified and my left eardrum aquiver in tympanic shock.

He gripped the handrests and shouted to relieve the tension on his eardrums, but there was no way of relieving the tension within.

The sudden overpressure, pressure which could not escape the sealed armored vehicle, burst the eardrums of every man trapped inside.

Thousand-watt horn tweeters split his eardrums, and the subwoofers shook his ribs.

As in a hospital operating room, technicians in starchy white uniforms and lint-free nylon caps bent over their patient with delicate instruments, adjusting its miles of veinlike electrical lines and sensitive eardrums.

I had heard that bull bellow only once before, but it had been indelibly engrooved on my eardrum.

The noise battered imperatively on the eardrums of the self hypnotised Graham.

Most of the basic tones were subsonic, sensed in the bones rather than the eardrums, but there were overtones and harmonics aplenty, a cacophony that somehow managed to seem both too bass and too shrill for comfort.

When the knitting needle, retail price ten pfennigs, is put in motion, when the instrument of vengeance rests on the ornate grille of the confessional and is aimed knittingneedle-sharp at the priest's ear, nothing quivers in alarm for the eardrum.

With a booming crack that numbed Duffy's abused eardrums and echoed from the distant trees, the gun lurched backward, gushing an afterburn of nearly transparent flame.

In that airlessly expanding quiet, the slightest touch of fever in the imagination would have made audible the thin whisper of eardrums waving soggily to and fro, like wet palm fronds in a breeze, as they tried dazedly to recapture the unbelievable vibrations that had numbed them.

Her eyes bulged strangely, savage and unreadable, and Hagane let out the birring hunting sound that seemed to go right through one's eardrums.

For a moment nothing happened, and then with a thump that concussed the air against their eardrums, the gasoline ignited.

Then a feedback squeal tore at their eardrums as the broadcaster adjusted.

Her voice beat double on his eardrums, coming from the cabin speakers as well as his implant.