tympanic body

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• tympanic body — an ovoid body found in the adventitia of the upper part of the superior bulb of the internal jugular vein; its structure and presumably its function are similar to those of the glomus caroticum (carotid body). Called also glomus jugulare, jugular …   Medical dictionary

• body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the …   Medical dictionary

• jugulotympanic body — tympanic b …   Medical dictionary

• Normal human body temperature — 98.6 redirects here. For other uses, see 98.6 (disambiguation). Normal human body temperature, also known as normothermia or euthermia, is a concept that depends upon the place in the body at which the measurement is made, and the time of day and …   Wikipedia

• List of muscles of the human body — Skeletal muscles homo sapiens Muscles of the human body: Overview Head  |  Neck  |&# …   Wikipedia

• infrared tympanic thermography — determination of body temperature by measuring the infrared radiation emanating from the tympanic membrane, using a probe introduced into the external acoustic meatus …   Medical dictionary

• infrared tympanic thermometer — a clinical thermometer inserted into the external acoustic meatus to measure body temperature by infrared tympanic thermography …   Medical dictionary

• gland — An organized aggregation of cells functioning as a secretory or excretory organ. SYN: glandula (1) [TA]. [L. glans, acorn] accessory g. a small mass of glandular structure, detached from but lying near another and larger g., to which it is… …   Medical dictionary

• jugular glomus — glomus jugulare tympanic body …   Medical dictionary

• glomus tympanicum — a tympanic body located adjacent to the middle ear. See also g. tympanicum tumor, under tumor …   Medical dictionary

• glomus jugulare tumor — a chemodectoma involving the tympanic body (glomus jugulare). It may cause symptoms in the ear (see glomus tympanicum t.) or in the mouth (hoarseness, dysphagia, aspiration, or tongue atrophy) …   Medical dictionary