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cavitas tympanica (medicine)


cavitas tympanica -->
tympanic cavity


An air chamber in the temporal bone containing the ossicles; it is lined with mucous membrane and is continuous with the auditory tube anteriorly and the tympanic antrum and mastoid air cells posteriorly.

Synonym: cavitas tympanica, cavity of middle ear, cavum tympani, tympanum.


false alarm (oh)



n [C]
a situation in which people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen
::Fire fighters responded to a false alarm at one of the college dormitories.
::The patient was okay - it was a false alarm.