NOUN
- distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity
How To Use tympanites In A Sentence
- 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
- When they gave me this information I knew that the tympanites was due to narcotic paralysis, instead of coming from perforative, septic peritonitis, as the general appearance and symptoms indicated. Appendicitis
- We remained a gastric tube during operation to prevent intestinal tympanites and to put in medicines that could improve the movement of intestine.
- Abdominal distension with a splashing sound like water, and accompanying dysuria indicates tympanites or ascites.
- The situation had changed from day before in that there were tenderness and pain in abdomen on pressure, some tympanites and an arrest of usual local discharge.
- It must be remembered that over distension makes contraction impossible, i. e., tympanites is paralysis just exactly according to its degree of distension.
- When they gave me this information I knew that the tympanites was due to narcotic paralysis, instead of coming from perforative, septic peritonitis, as the general appearance and symptoms indicated.
- The diversity of temperature is an important factor for tympanites to occur in highway roadbed.