tympanum
A drum.
The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
(in certain birds) The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated.
The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
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.
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