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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tympany¹

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

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.

From Los Angeles Times

A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.

From Literature

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg