Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of tympanites.
- Giving out a hollow or drum-like sound on percussion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.
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- adjective medicine Of, pertaining to, or affected with,
tympanites .
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- adjective of or relating to tympanites
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Examples
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The abdomen was greatly distended and tympanitic, and the left thigh and groin were very much swollen and oedematous, with some redness of surface.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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During the third week a large tympanitic abscess developed at the aperture of exit, and this was opened (Mr.S. W.F. Richardson) through the chest, and a large collection of foul-smelling pus, but no fæcal matter, evacuated.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Abdomen generally distended and tympanitic, wall rigid and motionless.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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The abdomen moved with respiration, but was moderately distended, especially in the line of the transverse colon; it was tympanitic on percussion, there was no dulness in the flanks, and only moderate rigidity of the wall on palpation.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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There was marked local dulness in the right flank, which did not shift on movement; the abdomen was elsewhere tympanitic.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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There were no serious primary symptoms, but ten days after the accident the temperature rose, swelling and pain developed in the right loin, and on the fourteenth day a large tympanitic abscess was opened (Dr. Flockemann, German Ambulance.)
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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If the abdomen is tympanitic, tell him it seems much distended; and if he questions much further, answer the questions fully and intelligently.
Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery
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If the abdomen is tympanitic, tell him it seems much distended; and if he questions much further, answer the questions fully and intelligently.
Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery
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Three weeks later a swelling was obvious to the right side of the umbilicus, and a tympanitic abscess developed; this was opened, and a deformed Mauser bullet extracted.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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The early development of a tympanitic abscess suggested an injury to the colon, but this was not by any means certain.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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