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tympanum: tags: [anatomy] [architecture]

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1. (Anat.)
(a) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.
(b) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
2. (Zoöl.) Defn: One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
3. (Arch.)
(a) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.
(b) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
4. (Mech.)
Defn: A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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It is fantastic, mad, divine, a thousand times better than anything you will see in Italy, where for that matter this very tympanum has been carefully copied by sculptors with far less genius.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]

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I was sorry to give you a room of which you are unworthy, but I did it in connexion with the noise, because in that room you will not have anyone above your head to disturb your trapanum (tympanum). Don’t be alarmed, I shall have the windows closed, so that they shan’t bang.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 4]

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Sure, you’d burst the tympanum of her ear, man, Mr Dedalus said through smoke aroma, with an organ like yours.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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