tympanites
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tympanites
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin tympanītēs < Greek tympanī́tēs, derivative of týmpanon drum ( see tympanum)
Example Sentences
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Indeed, tympanites is usually present in a sufficient degree to render this difficult.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The rose-colored eruption is, moreover, wanting, and diarrhoea and tympanites are absent.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Indeed the tympanites alone would have killed him.
From Appendicitis by John Henry Tilden
The size of the abdomen is due much more to the tympanites than to the amount of effusion.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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