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tympany

English

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek ???????? (túmpanon).

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: timpani, tympani

Noun

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

  1. The sound made by beating a drum.
  2. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
  3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
      Thine's a tympany of sense.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

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tympanites

English

Etymology

Coined based on Ancient Greek ???????? (túmpanon).

Noun

tympanites (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A distended abdomen as a result of an accumulation of gas.

Synonyms

  • tympanism
  • tympany
  • meteorism

Derived terms

  • tympanitic

Translations

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