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Tympany vs Tympans - What's the difference?

tympany | tympans |

As nouns the difference between tympany and tympans

is that tympany is the sound made by beating a drum while tympans is plural of tympan.

tympany

English

Noun

(tympanies)
  • The sound made by beating a drum.
  • (medicine) (distention of the abdomen).
  • Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • Thine 's a tympany of sense. — Dryden.
    (De Quincey)

    tympans

    English

    Noun

    (head)
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