tympany

For “The French Dispatch,” Desplat paired acclaimed pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in unusual duets with harp, tympany, bassoon or tuba, drawing from a wide range of references, including Erik Satie and Thelonious Monk.

A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.

In a large proportion of cases the perforation has been preceded by symptoms of great gravity, such as severe diarrhoea, great tympany and tenderness of the abdomen, and intestinal hemorrhage, but in a certain number of instances the cases in which it has occurred have been of a mild character, the patient in many of them not considering himself sick enough to take to his bed or even to abstain from his daily labor.

This relapse was accompanied by diarrhoea, rose-colored spots, tympany, dry and brown tongue, and other characteristic symptoms of typhoid fever, the diagnosis being fully concurred in by my colleague, Dr. Morris Longstreth, who saw the case with me.

There will generally be found to be a little diarrhoea, or at least an increased susceptibility to the action of purgative medicines; perhaps a little tympany and tenderness in the right iliac fossa, and moreover a prostration which is out of all proportion to the other symptoms.