Crossword-Solution: TYMPANUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tympanum | n. | The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. |
| Tympanum | n. | A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds. |
| Tympanum | n. | One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse. |
| 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. |
| Tympanum | n. | The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch. |
| Tympanum | n. | 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. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “TYMPANUM”
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| Architectural semicircular panel above a doorway, or eardrum | 1 answer |
| SPACE-filling screen painted with a picture of the Last Judgment | 1 answer |
| the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance | 1 answer |
| MIDDLE ear | 2 answers |
| eardrum | 2 answers |
| Tympanic membrane | 3 answers |
| ENCLOSED space | 4 answers |
| Ear | 29 answers |
| ear part | 32 answers |
| Drum. | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TYMPANUM (5)
You find your tympanum straining to catch some little murmur, and dwelling eagerly upon every accidental sound within the vessel.
Now one overtakes another, and now lags behind it; now five or six all strike on the pained tympanum at the same punctual instant of time, and make together a dismal chord of discord; and now for a second all seem to have conspired to hold their peace.
The pitites screamed themselves hoarse; while, to increase the uproar, some mischievous frequenters of the upper regions squeaked through dozens of cat-calls, till the combined noise was enough to blister every tympanum in the house.
There is sometimes natural perforation of the tympanum in an otherwise perfect ear, which explains how some people can blow tobacco-smoke from the ear.
About 1860, Reis built several forms of electrical telephonic apparatus, all imitating in some degree the human ear, with its auditory tube, tympanum, etc., and examples of the apparatus were exhibited in public not only in Germany, but in England.