| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DRUM | Tympanic membrane | |
| EARDRUM | Tympanic membrane | |
| TYMPANIC | Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane. | |
| TYMPANUM | The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. | |
| MALLEUS | The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far. | |
| UMBO | A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | |
| COLUMELLA | ...he columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tymp... | |