tympany
Pathology. tympanites.
Archaic. inflated or pretentious style; bombast; turgidity.
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How to use tympany in a sentence
tympany consists in an elastic tumor of the abdomen, which sounds on being struck.
Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus DarwinPlucked and bowed strings blended with wailing flutes and an exotic tympany to produce music formed of passion and movement.
Master of the Moondog | Stanley MullenMore tympany; numerous rose-colored spots out over abdomen and back; slight epistaxis and bronchitis.
Swell out an unmeaning truism to a perfect tympany of style.
Table-Talk | William HazlittHe had known many instances of its curing consumption, and had seen it act like a charm in cases of tympany.
British Dictionary definitions for tympany
/ (ˈtɪmpənɪ) /
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