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tympany

[tim-puh-nee]

noun

  1. Pathology.tympanites.

  2. Archaic.inflated or pretentious style; bombast; turgidity.



tympany

/ ˈɪəɪ /

noun

  1. another name for tympanites

  2. obsoleteexcessive pride or arrogance

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tympany1

1520–30; < Medieval Latin tympanias < Greek ٲ⳾貹í tympanites
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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.

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A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.

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Other stimulants were usually given in these cases, such as carbonate of ammonium, especially if pulmonary congestion existed; turpentine, especially if tympany was marked; or Hoffmann's anodyne or spirit of chloroform, if muscular twitchings, hiccough, or insomnia with wandering delirium were prominent symptoms.

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If, as the disease progresses, the tongue becomes dry and fissured, and if there is much tympany, it will be well to give, in addition to the quinia, ten drops of the oil of turpentine in mucilage every two hours.

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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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