- Look up tympanum or
timpanum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tympanum may
refer to:
Tympanum (architecture), an
architectural element located within...
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perceive sound by
different mechanisms, such as thin
vibrating membranes (
tympana).
Insects were the
earliest organisms to
produce and
sense sounds. Hearing...
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large trabeculation of the
posterior ventral skull between the ears. The
tympana of the ear lies
almost horizontally and the
manubrial tips are separated...
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structures called tympana (singular – tympanum) by
which they
detect sounds, the
equivalent of
having ears.
Males disable their own
tympana while calling...
- of
royal French kings and queens, were
removed from the
portals and the
tympana sculpture defaced. In 1794, the
government decided to
remove the lead tiles...
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collapse of one of the half-domes.
Emperor Basil I
ordered repair of the
tympanas, arches, and vaults. In his book De
caerimoniis aulae Byzantinae ("Book...
- A
tympanum (pl.:
tympana; from Gr**** and
Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or
triangular decorative wall
surface over an entrance, door...
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unique to the
Dictyoptera in that they have
tympanate hearing, with two
tympana in an
auditory chamber in
their metathorax. Most
mantises can only hear...
- some
species are mute. The
singing species have good hearing, via the
tympana on the
tibiae of the
front legs.
Crickets often appear as
characters in...
- with the
image of the
Goddess on
their breast, beat a
sacred drum
called tympana, and
performed a
ritual form of
beggary called metragyrtai,
while the galli...
