The quality of being tympanic.

(medicine) tympanic

The tympanic bone.

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

(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

(medicine) Synonym of myringitis

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tympanize

simple past tense and past participle of tympanize

(obsolete, transitive) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. / (obsolete, intransitive) To drum.