tympanites

1. 1.

   distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity

   Broaderdilatation

Other forms of tympanites

plural

tympaniteses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tympanites

What does tympanites mean?

tympanites means "distension of the abdomen that is caused by the accumulation of gas in the intestines or the peritoneal cavity".

How many syllables are in tympanites?

tympanites has 3 syllables and divides as tym-pani-tes under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.