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Definition of Tympana
1. tympanum [n] - See also: tympanum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympana
Literary usage of Tympana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1900)
"ON NORMAN tympana, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THOSE OF DERBYSHIRE BY TN BRUSHFIELD,
MD, FSA VISIT to the church of Ashford-in-the- Water, ..."
2. A System of Surgery: Theoretical and Practical by Timothy Holmes, John Whitaker Hulke (1883)
"Pulitzer's method of inflating the tympana. and middle ear, will enable the
observer to appreciate in ..."
3. A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith (1889)
"The sculptures in the tympana of the pediments (ie, the inner portion of the
triangular gable ends of the roof above the two porticoes), each of which was ..."
4. Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of by William Sandys Wright Vaux (1851)
"... the architectural severity which still maintained its ground m Sicily later
than in Greece Proper. 2. Casts from the tympana of the Temple of Athene in ..."
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