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Tympanums :: Tympanums (pl. ) of Tympanu.

Tympanic :: Tympanic (a.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.

Tympanic :: Tympanic (a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane..

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..

Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..

Tympanal :: Tympanal (n.) Tympanic.

Tympan :: Tympan (n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed..

Tympanic :: Tympanic (n.) The tympanic bone.

Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. t.) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum..

Meteorism :: Meteorism (n.) Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

Tympanites :: Tympanites (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

Promontory :: Promontory (n.) A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. i.) To drum.

Tympano :: Tympano (n.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

Timpano :: Timpano (n.) See Tympano.

Tympan :: Tympan (n.) A drum.

Tympanist :: Tympanist (n.) One who beats a drum.

Post-tympanic :: Post-tympanic (a.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus..

Drum :: Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane..

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.

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