tympanum

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• Their tympanum is not homologous with the tympanum of mammals and saurians (extant diapsids) because it developed independently in all three groups.
• No tympanum was ever carved, however, only the trumeau to support one, together with a similarly carved block and some subsidiary reliefs.
• The lenticular process is substantially longer than the arm of the manubrium which connects the tympanum to the articular facet.
• Architectural stone sculpture was traditionally highlighted with paint and remains survive, for instance, in the tympanum of the basilica of S. Madeleine in Vézelay, France, or on the façade of Conques.
• The tympanums, like a whirli-The midriff, like a montero-cap. gig. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• In turn, the embayment of the squamosal or cheek region was associated with the development of a tympanum or ear drum.
• The logograph had traced all the curves of speech with ink on paper; and it only remained to impress them on a solid surface in such a manner as to regulate the vibrations of an artificial tympanum or drum. Heroes of the Telegraph
• This part has a round cavity called fenestra rotunda, which is covered with a thin elastic membrane, and looks into the tympanum. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• The lenticular process is substantially longer than the arm of the manubrium which connects the tympanum to the articular facet.
• Its tympanum is filled with a kind of reticulated ornament made up of small lozenges or meshes. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1