paratympanic

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English

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Etymology

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From para- +‎ tympanic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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paratympanic (not comparable)

  1. Beyond the tympanum
    • 2015 September 24, “Ontogeny of the Middle-Ear Air-Sinus System in Alligator mississippiensis (Archosauria: Crocodylia)”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      These sinuses invade nearly all the bones of the chondrocranium and several bony elements of the splanchnocranium, but patterns of postnatal paratympanic sinus development are poorly understood and documented.

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