1.   The vibrations you heard traveled through the metal coat hanger, then through the string and the pencils to your ear drum.

2.   Busted ear drum.

3.   Molly ruptured her ear drum diving, mangled her foot when she stepped on a sea urchin, and depleted her supply of phenobarbital.

4.   Originally, doctors in Atlantic City said he had a broken ear drum, not a broken jaw as first feared.

5.   Otherwise, an athlete bursts his emotional ear drums, having spent too much energy on getting angry and not enough on getting to the finish line.

6.   She is in serious condition at Parkland Hospital in Dallas with damaged ear drums and burns on her face and hand.

7.   The main effect is to cause intense pain in the ear drums.

8.   There could be a hole in the ear drum, fluid in the middle ear, damage to the middle-ear bones, wax buildup.

9.   While they do remove a little wax from the canal, they also pack some against the ear drum, which can cause infections and pain.

10.   But he said the postmortems showed the whales had suffered no physical damage, such as broken ear drums.