tympani

NOUN
  1. a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
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How To Use tympani In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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.
  • The utriculus opens broadly into the scala tympani, and the nervous elements of the cochlea are degenerate. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
  • I almost blush when I think of myself as describing the eight several facets on two slender processes of the palate bone, or the seven little twigs that branch off from the minute tympanic nerve, and I wonder whether my excellent colleague feels in the same way when he pictures himself as giving the constitution of neurin, which as he and I know very well is that of the hydrate of trimethyle-oxethyle-ammonium, or the formula for the production of alloxan, which, though none but the Professors and older students can be expected to remember it, is C10 H4 N4 O6+ 2HO, NO5 = C8 H4 N2 Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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