tympan

NOUN
  1. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
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How To Use tympan In A Sentence

  • Their tympanum is not homologous with the tympanum of mammals and saurians (extant diapsids) because it developed independently in all three groups.
  • An interlude of steel drum, tympani, and bongo injected a decidedly powerful tribal element to the experience.
  • The merchant was tympanitic from the first day of his prostration, which is not usual. Appendicitis
  • The manubrium mallei (handle) is connected by its lateral margin with the tympanic membrane. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles
  • The starchy food created gas, and the bowels, not having their natural tone, gave way to the gas until there was _ "Meteorism," _ not tympanites but meteorism which means to blow up or distend all that is possible. Appendicitis
  • No tympanum was ever carved, however, only the trumeau to support one, together with a similarly carved block and some subsidiary reliefs.
  • It is announced by the horns con sordini, accompanied very softly by held notes in the strings, except viola, pizzicato in the celli, and tympani. Edward MacDowell
  • The tympanic segment of chorda tympani nerve is parallel with the tympanic segment of facial nerve.
  • At the blind end of this chamber, the bone forms the tegmen tympani.
  • As the side of the wakeboarder's face hits the water, a column of air is forced into the external auditory ear canal and the tympanic membrane ruptures.
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