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What is a tympany?

What is a tympany? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The sound made by beating a drum.
  2. (medicine)Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
  3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
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He had known many instances of its curing consumption, and had seen it act like a charm in cases of tympany.
To swell a man with a tympany is as good sport as to blow a frog.
This pathological condition is called guttural pouch tympany, and surgical treatment is necessary for affected foals to recover from this disease.
Guttural pouch tympany is observed in horses ranging from birth to 1 yr of age and is more common in fillies than in colts.
Below, the cardiac dullness is merged into the tympany from the stomach and the dullness from the liver.
The problem, of course, is called ruminal tympany or, simply, bloat.

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