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The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.
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The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.
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The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
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A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
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An area above a door between the lintel and the arch. Frequently carved with relief sculptures
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Recessed vertical face of triangular space between lintel and arch of door.
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The membrane covering the external opening of the middle ear chamber or vestibule.
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The roughly semicircular area of stone or other material enclosed by an arch that springs from a lintel, usually found in medieval architecture above a doorway or portal, and often highly decorated. Also, in Classical architecture, the area enclosed by pediment.
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The triangular space enclosed by the cornice or molding of a pediment.
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Triangular space in the pediment of a classical building, semicircular solid space between the arch and lintel of a Gothic doorway or between the covering arch and lights of a window. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 415)
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The triangular recessed space beneath the coping of a pedimant and between the raking cornice of the roof and the horizontal geison below.
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The recessed face of a pediment within the frame above an arched entrance.
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area (either semi-circular or triangular) which dominates a portal. Often with sculpted ornamental work.
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eardrum; most frogs and toads have a large external one
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the visible, external ear drum
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the eardrum; can be used to distinguish sex in some species, such as pig frogs, where the males have larger tympanums than the females.
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Space between lintel and arch over doorway.
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This is the external ear drum visible on the side of the head of most frogs.
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membrane separating outer ear from middle ear: the eardrum.
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the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear
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the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound
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Vertical triangular space, plain or with relief decoration, between the slopes of a roof and the horizontal cornice of a temple or other building with a pediment.
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A triangular space between an arch and the horizontal bar of a portal or window (lintel), often decorated with sculpture (fig.3,C).
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Recessed semicircular or triangular space over a doorway enclosed by the lintel and the arch
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The ear drum, which is visible on the side of the head. See the Anatomy page for a photo.
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a panel of stone, often carved with relief sculpture, filling an arch above the lintel of an opening
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tympana (Lat., "drum"): the triangular area enclosed within a classical pediment.
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A thoracic or abdominal hearing mechanism based upon membrane vibration registered via scolio-receptors.
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Triangular face of a pediment
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the basically semicircular panel above a main doorway, usually heavily decorated ( Also see 'portal' and 'porch')
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eardrum. [see diagram].
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the triangle in the face of a pediment or the semi-circle in the head of an arch.
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Space between the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it
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a panel above a main portal, or doorway, usually heavily decorated.
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Space (triangular or rounded) enclosed by pediment, often with decoration.
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The external eardrum.
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The arched section over the dial of a clock.
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the brown, circular disc behind the eyes of frogs and toads which functions as an eardrum
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The membrane which separates the outer ear from the middle ear.
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the ear drum visually seen on some lizards
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The space enclosed by a lintel and an arch over a doorway.
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The panel, usually semicircular, located between the underside of an arch and the top of a doorway within the arch; also the triangular space enclosed by a pediment.
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recessed space enclosed by slanting cornices of a pediment
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