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tympany

[ tim-puh-nee ]

noun

  1. Pathology. tympanites.
  2. Archaic. inflated or pretentious style; bombast; turgidity.


tympany

/ ˈtɪmpənɪ /

noun

  1. another name for tympanites
  2. obsolete.
    excessive pride or arrogance
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tympany1

1520–30; < Medieval Latin tympanias < Greek tympaníās tympanites
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Example Sentences

For “The French Dispatch,” Desplat paired acclaimed pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in unusual duets with harp, tympany, bassoon or tuba, drawing from a wide range of references, including Erik Satie and Thelonious Monk.

A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.

In a large proportion of cases the perforation has been preceded by symptoms of great gravity, such as severe diarrhoea, great tympany and tenderness of the abdomen, and intestinal hemorrhage, but in a certain number of instances the cases in which it has occurred have been of a mild character, the patient in many of them not considering himself sick enough to take to his bed or even to abstain from his daily labor.

Examination of the abdomen toward the middle or close of the first week will almost always reveal the existence of tympany and of tenderness and gurgling in the right iliac fossa, and very frequently also of slight enlargement of the spleen.

In a case which aborted on the twelfth day there were hebetude, diarrhoea, tympany, and rose-colored spots persisting even after the subsidence of the fever.

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