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Tympanum may refer to:

  • Tympanum (architecture), an architectural element located within the arch or pediment
  • Tympanum (anatomy), a hearing organ/gland in frogs and toads, a flat red oval on both sides of a frog's head
  • Tympanum, in biology, the eardrum
  • Tympanum, or tympanal organ, a hearing organ in insects
  • Tympanum (hand drum), a percussion instrument in ancient Greece and Rome
  • Timpano, in music, singular of timpani, a kettledrum
  • Sakia or saqiya, in Latin "tympanum", a water-raising device
  • Larnaca Tympanum, a medieval sculpture

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Tympanum

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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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Larnaca Tympanum

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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...

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Astrolabe

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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...

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Tympanal organ

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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...

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Southern water skink

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cool-temperate water-skink, highland water skink, or Dreeite water skink (Eulamprus tympanum) is a medium-sized (maximum snout-vent length c. 100 mm) species of skink...

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Autun Cathedral

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with dramatic scenes of heaven and hell. Other features include a rare tympanum signed by Giselbertus of Autun. The Autun Cathedral is a magnificent display...

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Round window

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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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Atympanophrys

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central China south to northern Vietnam. They are commonly known as hidden-tympanum horned toads. They were synonymized with Xenophrys in 2006, but revived...

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Gislebertus

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Cathedral of Saint Lazare at Autun, France – consisting of numerous doorways, tympanums and capitals – represents some of the most original work of the period...

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Insect

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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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Gothic architecture

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nave. Over each doorway was a tympanum, a work of sculpture crowded with figures. The sculpture of the central tympanum was devoted to the Last Judgement...

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Portico of Glory

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in the cathedral and on the lintel that supports the richly ornamental tympanum. Under the contract made in 1168, if Mateo was to renege on the deal to...

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Hagia Sophia

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Zoe mosaic The Comnenus mosaic The Deësis mosaic Mosaic in the northern tympanum depicting Saint John Chrysostom Detail of the Christ Pantocrator mosaic...

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Frog

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the frog calls. In some species such as the bullfrog, the size of the tympanum indicates the sex of the frog; males have tympani that are larger than...

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Middle Ages

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Byzantine and Romanesque traditions in Serbia. Its west portal with its tympanum was completed by southern Italian builders in the late 12th century Artistic...

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Roman Empire

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Trio of musicians playing an aulos, cymbala, and tympanum (mosaic from Pompeii)...

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Cicada

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having the prothorax extending as far as the scutellum, and by lacking the tympanal apparatus. The adult insect, known as an imago, is 2 to 5 cm (1 to 2 in)...

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

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has two entrance doors in degradation with archivolts and historical tympanums. The archivolts are attached over eleven columns, three are of white marble...

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Lepidoptera

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largest superfamily, the Noctuoidea, has their wings modified to act as tympanal or hearing organs. The caterpillar has an elongated, soft body that may...

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Beetle

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oxyluciferin, carbon dioxide, and light. Tympanal organs or hearing organs consist of a membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an air...

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Toulouse

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Romanesque sculptures, including numerous capitals and the historiated tympanum of the Miègeville gate, one of the first of its kind. Basilica of Saint-Sernin...

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Greater India

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The 10th-century tympanum of the dancing Shiva in Champa, Vietnam...

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Timpani

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cribri. Tympanum autem dictum quod medium est, unde et margaritum medium tympanum dicitur; et ipsud ut symphonia ad virgulam percutitur. The tympanum is a...

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Invertebrate

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insects, tympanal organs are used to hear distant sounds. They are located either on the head or elsewhere, depending on the insect family. The tympanal organs...

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Selah

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"Sela" on a tympanum of St Nicholas Church, in Stralsund, Germany...

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