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haemotympanum

haemotympanum is the alternative form of hemotympanum.

Meaning of hemotympanum

Noun

hemotympanum (uncountable)

  1. The presence of blood in the tympanic cavity of the middle ear.
    • Hemotympanum is often the result of basilar skull fracture.

Origin of haemotympanum

From haemo- + tympanum.

Questions about haemotympanum

What is haemotympanum the alternative form of?
Haemotympanum is the alternative form of hemotympanum.

Words near haemotympanum in the dictionary

  1. haemotoxins
  2. haemotoxylin
  3. haemotransfusion
  4. haemotransfusions
  5. haemotropic
  6. haemotympanum
  7. haemovascular
  8. haemoventosin
  9. haemovigilance
  10. haemovore
  11. haemovores

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haemotympanum (page history and authors); hemotympanum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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