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Example sentences for "tympanum"

Lexicographically close words:
tympana; tympani; tympanic; tympanites; tympanitic; tymys; tynt; typal; type; typed
  1. The angel carved in stone, built into the north wall of Steepleton church, near Dorchester, may have formed part of the tympanum of the doorway of the Saxon church.

  2. It is exquisitely decorated in Bramantesque style; reliefs of angels and foliage surround the door; and in the tympanum is a fine relief of the Virgin and Child.

  3. In the tympanum of the arch stand three bishops, and over the architrave two other lions on brackets mark the spring of the arch.

  4. In Bonino's the columns are richly carved, the arches lavishly cusped, the tympanum filled with sculptured medallions.

  5. How inferior to that of the twelfth century, the expressive and living God seated between the symbols of the Tetramorph in the tympanum of the royal front.

  6. The tympanum again expressed the same purpose of parallelism, evidently intended by the master of the work.

  7. And this is quite intelligible, since He is enthroned there for two purposes, and His true palace, His real throne, is in the triumphal tympanum of the royal doorway in the west front.

  8. What I should now like to know," he went on, "is why the historians of this cathedral pronounce the scene of the last Judgment represented on the tympanum of the door as the most remarkable of its kind in France.

  9. The tympanum of the door will have no charm for us," the Abbé went on.

  10. A thin dermal fold from posterior corner of eye above tympanum to insertion of forelimb, covering upper edge of tympanum; tympanum nearly round, its diameter equal to its distance from eye.

  11. A heavy dermal fold from posterior corner of eye above tympanum to insertion of forelimb, covering upper edge of tympanum; tympanum elliptical, its greatest diameter equal to its distance from eye.

  12. In the tympanum of the pediment, over the eastern front, Stuart observed several holes in the marble, where metal cramps had been fixed for sustaining sculpture in entire relief, as over the eastern entrance to the Parthenon.

  13. The western front is rich in golden hues, and seems as if it had absorbed the evening beams[85]; little white appears, except the tympanum and part of the entablature.

  14. Lateral dark stripe indistinct, present only above tympanum and insertion of arm; dorsal markings consisting of narrow lines and dashes, sometimes interconnected; transverse bars on shanks narrow relative to interspaces H.

  15. Stewart quotes four cases of rupture of the tympanum from boxing the ears, and there is an instance of a boy of eight, who was boxed on the ear at school, in whom subsequent brain-disease developed early, and death followed.

  16. There is sometimes natural perforation of the tympanum in an otherwise perfect ear, which explains how some people can blow tobacco-smoke from the ear.

  17. The central tympanum is divided into five compartments filled with figures in relief.

  18. The interior is not remarkable, but the large and elaborate bas-relief of the Last Judgment which fills the tympanum of the portal is considered the most precious example of mediaeval sculpture in the Bas-Limousin.

  19. In the tympanum of the twelfth-century portal is one of those bas-reliefs representing the Last Judgment upon which the artistic ambition of the early Gothic period appears to have been chiefly directed in this region.

  20. This genus is most nearly allied to Leiuperus of Messieurs Dumeril and Bibron, with which it agrees in having no teeth on the palate, but it differs from it in the tympanum being quite hid.

  21. When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to same sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension.

  22. Defn: One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone.

  23. Defn: Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch.

  24. A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

  25. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

  26. A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

  27. In many terrestrial Insects a different type of auditory organ has been met with, consisting of a portion of the integument modified to form a tympanum or drum, and supported at its edge by a chitinous ring.

  28. The vibrations set up in the membranous tympanum stimulate terminal nerve organs at the ends of chitinous processes, placed in a cavity bounded externally by the tympanic membrane.

  29. For the portio mollis of the auditory nerve is not spread upon the tympanum, but upon the vestibulum, and cochlea, and semicircular canals of the ear; while between the tympanum and the expansion of the auditory nerve the cavity is said by Dr.

  30. But it appears from dissection, that the tympanum is not the immediate organ of hearing, but that like the humours and cornea of the eye, it is only of use to prepare the object for the immediate organ.

  31. It is generally believed, that the tympanum of the ear vibrates mechanically, when exposed to audible sounds, like the strings of one musical instrument, when the same notes are struck upon another.

  32. The vibrations of the air stimulate the auditory nerve into animal action; while it is probable that the tympanum of the ear at the same time undergoes a mechanical vibration.

  33. The relief panel in the tympanum represents the industries of Spinning, Building, Agriculture, Manual Labor and Commerce.

  34. And in the tympanum overhead the shield of the six eagles that was carved there showed so plainly that Olivia and Jack pointed it out to each other at the same moment.

  35. They connect the tympanic membrane with the labyrinth, and serve to convey the vibrations communicated to the membrane across the cavity of the tympanum to the internal ear.

  36. On the inner wall of the tympanum are two openings, the round window, or foramen rotundum, and the oval window, or foramen ovale.

  37. These little bones are connected with each other and the tympanum by ligaments and moved by three tiny muscles.

  38. The tympanum is thus a partition between the passage of the outer ear and the cavity of the middle ear.

  39. The pipe grew silent; the voices of the sonorous tympanum and the murmuring harp died away; and as if the strings had burst, the cithara answered with a tremulous, broken note.

  40. And music played the tympanum and the pipe, the cithara and the harp.

  41. On the tympanum are shields with arms of the diocese, and on the west the arms of Lady Catherine Leveson, a benefactress of the time of Bishop Hacket, and an inscription recording her munificence on the east.

  42. In the tympanum is the Saviour, with angels and the evangelistic emblems, and below small mutilated figures of the Apostles.

  43. Returning to the north transept we see a curious tympanum over the belfry doorway, with strange carving representing the teaching of Psalm xci.

  44. The south doorway is especially worthy of notice, with its fine sculpture and splendid tympanum representing the Last Judgment.

  45. The tympanum is divided into three panels.

  46. In the tympanum of each trefoil arch there is a quatrefoil and two semi-arches, which are completed by similar ones under the next arch.

  47. The tympanum over the Prior's Door contains a representation of our Lord in glory.

  48. It consists of a round arch, with two sub-arches, and in the tympanum there is an episcopal figure, probably that of St. Dubricius.

  49. The lines of the design of the sculptured tympanum were strictly related to the space, and the degree and treatment of the relief clearly felt in regard to the architectural effect (p.

  50. Illustration (f109): Chartres Cathedral: Tympanum of the Central Door of the West Front.

  51. The tympanum of the central portal contains a "Last Judgment," remarkable alike for its magnitude and workmanship.

  52. The three main portals of the façade, as that of the transept, are somewhat bare of ornament, though the main tympanum and the spring of the arch are fairly filled.

  53. The external auditory meatus, tympanum and Eustachian tube are remains of the hyomandibular cleft, the membrana tympani being a remnant of the cleft membrane and therefore lined by ectoderm outside and entoderm inside.

  54. The whole tympanum is about half an inch from before backward, and half an inch high, and is spanned from side to side by three small bones, of which the malleus (fig.

  55. In this class the tympanum and Eustachian tube are first developed; the membrana tympani lies flush with the skin of the side of the head, and the sound-waves are transmitted from it to the internal ear by a single bony rod--the columella.

  56. Diseases of the internal ear may be primary or secondary to an affection of the tympanum or to intracranial disease.

  57. Below the roof the upper part of the tympanum is somewhat constricted off from the rest, and to this part the term "attic" is often applied.

  58. The mucous membrane lining the tympanum is continuous through the Eustachian tube with that of the naso-pharynx, and is reflected on to the ossicles, muscles and chorda tympani nerve.

  59. The stapedius and tensor tympanic muscles, the latter of which enters the tympanum in a canal just above the Eustachian tube to be attached to the malleus, modify the movements of the ossicles.

  60. The subject in the tympanum is by Nanteuil, representing S.

  61. In the Porte de la Vierge, the Mother and Child hold the central place, and in the tympanum are the Assumption and the Glorification of the Virgin.

  62. The tympanum is ornamented with the History of Joachim and Anna, the Marriage of the Virgin and the Budding of S.

  63. Indeed, he tells us in the account of his administration that he took much trouble in preserving a mosaic which he had brought home and placed in the tympanum of one of the doors.

  64. In the tympanum a king and queen are represented kneeling at each side of our Lord and His Mother, very probably S.

  65. The subject of the central tympanum and voussure is The Last Judgment.

  66. The sculptures of the tympanum of the Porte du Cloître represent the Legend of S.

  67. The tympanum bas-relief has been restored.

  68. His effigy, and that of his wife, were to be seen kneeling at the Virgin's feet in the tympanum of the porch.

  69. The apse has shallow pilasters dividing the exterior surface into three, in the centre of which is a walled-up east window of two lights, with a cross within a circle in the tympanum beneath the enclosing arch.

  70. The rock above the town, called Stirovnik, has a chapel upon it, the Madonna della Salute, now used as an ossuary, which has a piece of Lombard carving inserted in the tympanum above the door.

  71. There are two orders and a tympanum with octagonal shafts in the angles, those nearest the door apparently having fragments of highly carved work inserted, since the plain octagonal shaft is visible both above and below the carving.

  72. Via Abbazia--a round arch simply moulded, with a dentil round the tympanum and a lintel below.

  73. The west door is elaborately carved with somewhat confused ornament, and in the pointed tympanum is a Madonna and Child flanked by two standing angels, which do not fit in quite comfortably.

  74. In the tympanum of the door is a pierced roundel with the Agnus Dei.

  75. Michele) has a pointed Venetian door, with a relief in the tympanum of S.

  76. In the tympanum is a later relief of the Virgin and Child enthroned, with two saints, beneath a pointed trefoil arcade; and on brackets at the sides are four figures of Apostles.

  77. It has a central door with three unmoulded orders and a sunk tympanum beneath a gable.

  78. John the Baptist and two other saints in the tympanum of the Gothic doorway, and S.

  79. The south door has round arches beneath an ogee hood, the jambs are ornamented with damaged scrolled leafage, and in the tympanum is a figure of S.

  80. A rough relief in the tympanum shows a Virgin and Child, and on the right a local saint, Augustino Cassioti, canonised by Pope John XXII.

  81. The tympanum is occupied by the subject of the Nativity, arranged in two stages.

  82. There is ultramarine, gold, and scarlet in the tympanum of the central doorway, where there are also the marks of metal fittings.

  83. The tympanum under the arch and above the double opening of the doorway contains a quatrefoil, in which is a noble sculpture of the Madonna and Child.

  84. The tympanum is sometimes darker, sometimes lighter than its surroundings.

  85. Its two doors are enclosed by a rounded archway, in the tympanum of which is a figure of our Lord in Glory with two archangels.

  86. The ground colour of the tympanum on which all these delicately modelled bas-reliefs stand was evidently at one time a gorgeous blue and gold.

  87. In the tympanum over the central doorway is a figure of S.

  88. This is a relief of the "Deposition from the Cross" in the tympanum of the arch of a side door at S.


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    Other words:
    amnion; anvil; drum; drumstick; ear; eardrum; frieze; hammer; kettledrum; lobe; membrane; pellicle; pleura; shell; snare; stapes; stirrup; tambourine; timbrel; topping; tympanum; vestibule