Meanings
adjectiveintertympanic (not comparable)
- not comparableBetween tympana
Furthermore, Wever and Vernon [25 ] showed that sound energy is conducted through the heads of crocodylians via intertympanic communications allowing for sound localization by way of the detection of interaural time and phase differences.
2015 September 24, “Ontogeny of the Middle-Ear Air-Sinus System in Alligator mississippiensis (Archosauria: Crocodylia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with intertympanic
organicHispanicpanicmechanictitanicvolcanicinorganicmanicbotanicshamanicBritannictannictympanicclavulanicRomanicaldermanictetanicDianicallophanicalloxanicbalanicbistephaniccaroticotympanicCatalanic
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APA
intertympanic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intertympanic
MLA
“intertympanic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intertympanic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intertympanic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intertympanic.
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