A muscle of the tympanic cavity that attaches to an auditory ossicle. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Synonyms: ossicular muscle auditory ossicles muscle muscle of auditory ossicles tympanic cavity muscle muscle of tympanic cavity
Term information
- NCIT:C33148
- EMAPA:37776 (MA:th)
- UMLS:C1513769 (ncithesaurus:Muscle_of_the_Tympanum)
- Wikipedia:Muscles_of_auditory_ossicles
- FMA:49026
- MA:0000256
- SCTID:244778009
attenuate low-frequency sounds, reduce masking of high-frequency sounds by low-frequency sounds, frequency-selection filter
Term relations
- cranial muscle
- muscle organ
- attached to some auditory ossicle bone
- located in some tympanic cavity
- part of some middle ear