See Also: tympano-(medicine)
tympano-(dictionary)

sometime 2, adjective (oh) and tympano- (iou)


sometime 2, adjective (oh)



2 adj [only before noun]
formal former
::Sir Richard Marsh, the sometime chairman of British Rail
AmE used to say that someone does or has a particular job part of the time
::Grimm, a sometime delivery driver, lives with his elderly mother.

tympano- (iou)



tympano- combining form of TYMPANUM: see -O-. Before a vowel tympan-. Cf. MYRINGO-.
tympanogram noun a graphical record of pressure changes obtained in tympanometry M20.
tympano'metric adjective of or pertaining to tympanometry L20.
tympa'nometry noun the measurement, for diagnostic purposes, of changes in the compliance of the tympanic membrane as the air pressure is altered in the passage of the external ear M20.
tympanoplasty noun = MYRINGOPLASTY M20.
tympa'notomy noun (rare) = MYRINGOTOMY E20.