The quality of being tympanic.

Of, relating to, or resembling a drum. / (anatomy) Relating to the tympanum, eardrum or middle ear. / (music) Resonant.

(medicine) tympanic

The tympanic bone.

(printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed. / (music) The stretched membrane of a drum.

plural of tympan

That has a tympanum

plural of tympanic ring

The peculiar high-pitched quality of sound produced by percussion over the intestines, etc. when they contain air.

An annular tympanic bone, to which the tympanic membrane is attached.