Usage examples (25)

• Abdomen generally distended and tympanitic, wall rigid and motionless.
• The early development of a tympanitic abscess suggested an injury to the colon, but this was not by any means certain.
• There was marked local dulness in the right flank, which did not shift on movement; the abdomen was elsewhere tympanitic.
• The abdomen was then normal in appearance, and as to physical signs, except for a tympanitic note over the hepatic area to the right of the wound.