What is the meaning of Tympanum?
A drum.
Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
- The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
- The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
- A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
- A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
- The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated
- The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch
The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch
A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.
drum, timbrel, tambour, tambourine
- timbrel as a figure of something effeminate or enervating
timbrel as a figure of something effeminate or enervating
:
- drum or wheel in machines for raising weights, in water organs, etc.
- :
- triangular area of a pediment
- panel of a door
- part of the clepsydra
drum or wheel in machines for raising weights, in water organs, etc.
:
- triangular area of a pediment
- panel of a door
- part of the clepsydra
triangular area of a pediment
part of the clepsydra
form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tympanon
Source: wiktionary.org
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