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...

A tympanum (pl.: tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door...

A tympanal organ (or tympanic organ) is a hearing organ in insects, consisting of a tympanal membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The tympanum of the central portal of the Madeleine de Vézelay is different from its counterparts across Europe. From the beginning, its tympanum was...

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

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

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)...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

with inverted bouquets, also in relief. The central bay is topped by a tympanum decorated with carvings of a scallop shell and leaves. The names of the...

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

Annunciation to the Resurrection – positioned in arches around the tympanum. Finally, in tympanum is the Birth of Christ. The figures are very realistic, recalling...

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

corbelling. A pediment is a roughly triangular structure above a lintel. A tympanum is the decorated surface of a pediment. The styles employed by Angkorean...

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

The Tetragrammaton on the Tympanum of the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. Louis, King of France in Missouri...

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...

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

Motto of the French republic on the tympanum of a church in Aups, Var département, which was installed after the 1905 law on the Separation of the State...