- Look up
tympanum or
timpanum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tympanum may
refer to:
Tympanum (architecture), an
architectural element located within...
- The
tympanum is an
external hearing structure in
animals such as mammals, birds, some reptiles, some
amphibians and some insects.
Using sound, vertebrates...
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Wikimedia Commons has
media related to
tympanums.
Sculpted tympanums Chartres Cathedral, West Front,
Central Portal Tympanum of the last
Judgment -
western portal...
- A
tympanal organ (or
tympanic organ) is a
hearing organ in insects,
consisting of a
membrane (
tympanum)
stretched across a
frame backed by an air sac and...
- Look up
tympanum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In
ancient Greece and Rome, the
tympanon (τύμπανον) or
tympanum, was a type of
frame drum or tambourine...
- The
Larnaca Tympanum is a
medieval sculpture in
white marble found at
Larnaca in
Cyprus in the
nineteenth century. It is now in the
collection of the V&A...
- The
round window is one of the two
openings from the
middle ear into the
inner ear. It is
sealed by the
secondary tympanic membrane (round
window membrane)...
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compound eyes, with
additional small ocelli. Many
insects can hear,
using tympanal organs,
which may be on the legs or
other parts of the body.
Their sense...
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Tropic of Capricorn,
defines the size of the astrolabe's
tympanum. The
center of the
tympanum (and the
center of the
three circles) is
actually the north-south...
- of two or three, a balustrade, spindlework,
pediments with
decorated tympanums, and a
distinctive corner turret with a
conical roof of
patterned shingles...
