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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 tym·pa·ny /-ni/
 鼓音
From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典
 tym·pa·ny /-nɪ/ 名詞
 氣鼓,鼓脹,鼓響
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Tym·pa·ny n.
 1. Med. A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
 2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. “Thine's a tympany of sense.”
    A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence.   --De Quincey.