Definition of Tympanitic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to tympanites.

Partainyms: Tympanites

Definition of Tympanitic

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.

Definition of Tympanitic

1. Adjective. (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites. ¹

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Definition of Tympanitic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Tympanitic

1. Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites. Origin: L. Tympaniticus one afflicted with tympanites. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympanitic

tympanic ring
tympanic sinus
tympanic vein
tympanic veins
tympanic wall of cochlear duct
tympanichord
tympanichordal
tympanicity
tympanics
tympanies
tympanism
tympanist
tympanists
tympanites
tympaniteses
tympanitic (current term)
tympanitic resonance
tympanitis
tympanize
tympanized
tympanizes
tympanizing
tympano
tympano-
tympanocentesis
tympanoeustachian
tympanohyal
tympanohyal bone
tympanohyals
tympanomalleal

Literary usage of Tympanitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"tympanitic Resonance. tympanitic resonance is that obtained over a hollow body, like the stomach when moderately distended with air.1 It is usually of a ..."

2. A Treatise on Diagnostic Methods of Examination by Hermann Sahli (1911)
"theoretic differentiation between tympanitic and non-tympanitic notes will not make the matter much clearer to a beginner; but in a practical demonstration ..."

3. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1915)
"tympanitic Resonance. tympanitic resonance is that obtained over a hollow body, like the stomach when moderately distended with air.1 It is usually of a ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"The tympanitic Sound produced by Percussion of the Lung, when partially ... Perhaps it would be most convenient to designate the sound as 'tympanitic,' for ..."

5. Physical Exploration and Diagnosis of Diseases Affecting the Respiratory Organs by Austin Flint (1856)
"tympanitic RESONANCE.—Agreeably to the definition already given, under this head are embraced all kinds of sonorousness which want the special quality or ..."

6. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1885)
"Flint called this peculiar tympanitic sound, heard above the level of the fluid in pleurisy, by the descriptive name vesiculo-tympanitic resonance. ..."

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