Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of tympan is as below...

Tympan :: Tympan (n.) A drum.

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

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

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

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..

Eardrum :: Eardrum (n.) The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

Timpano :: Timpano (n.) See Tympano.

Tympanitic :: Tympanitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites..

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.

Fenestra :: Fenestra (n.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear..

Stylohyoid :: Stylohyal (n.) A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Malleus :: Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far..

Tympanohyal :: Tympanohyal (a.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch.

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear..

Tympanizing :: Tympanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tympaniz.

Siphonium :: Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible..

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

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table..

Tympanized :: Tympanized (imp. & p. p.) of Tympaniz.

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular