Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A distension of the abdomen resulting from the accumulation of gas or air in the intestine or peritoneal cavity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Distention of the abdomen caused by the presence of air either in the intestine or in the cavity of the peritoneum; abdominal tympanism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
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- noun medicine A
distended abdomen as aresult of anaccumulation ofgas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On March 31 there was slight tympanites and tenderness in the right iliac fossa.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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The participants seemed to suffer greatly from tympanites which was generally relieved by compression or thumping on the abdomen.
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Collins 12.133 describes spontaneous rupture of the stomach in a woman of seventy-four, the subject of lateral curvature of the spine, who had frequent attacks of indigestion and tympanites.
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The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.
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The participants seemed to suffer greatly from tympanites which was generally relieved by compression or thumping on the abdomen.
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The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.
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Arton 12.131 reports the case of a negro of fifty who suffered from tympanites.
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Arton reports the case of a negro of fifty who suffered from tympanites.
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Again, the opium masked the case dreadfully; for it produced vomiting at that stage of the case when there should have been no trouble with the stomach at all, and induced a tympanites that was mistaken for the same state brought on by peritonitis.
Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895
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This tympanites cannot be from peritonitis for perforation would be necessary to cause it and nothing would stop the progress after it had once started except to open the cavity wash and drain.
Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895
qms commented on the word tympanites
The “blimp” was a British wry tease:
A Trump in his bright tighty-whities.
Onlookers were cheerful,
The Trump, though, was tearful,
Afflicted with gross tympanites.
August 26, 2018