Usually means: Membrane in middle ear region.
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  1. tympan: Merriam-Webster
  2. tympan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tympan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tympan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tympan: Vocabulary.com
  6. tympan: Wordnik
  7. tympan: Wiktionary
  8. tympan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tympan: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tympan, tympan-: Dictionary.com
  11. Tympan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Tympan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tympan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. tympan: Rhymezone
  15. Tympan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tympan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. tympan: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tympan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tympan: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tympan-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tympan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tympan(o)-, tympan-: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tympan)

noun:  (printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
noun:  (music) The stretched membrane of a drum.
noun:  (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
noun:  (architecture) A tympanum.
noun:  The tympanum of the ear.

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