Catalog

Certain specified disorders of tympanic membrane

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Link to WHO Definition

Certain specified disorders of tympanic membrane – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1859209284

This is other disorders of the thin, cone-shaped membrane that separates the external ear from the middle ear in humans and other tetrapods. Its function is to transmit sound from the air to the ossicles inside the middle ear, and then to the oval window in the fluid-filled cochlea.