TYMPANITIC • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Tympanitic

... 96, temperature 100 deg.. Tongue moist, occasional vomiting, bowels open yesterday. Has taken fluid nourishment since injury. The abdomen moved with respiration, but was moderately distended, especially in the line of the transverse colon; it was tympanitic on percussion, there was no dulness in the flanks, and only moderate rigidity of the wall on palpation. Frothy fluid stained with bile and faecal in odour was escaping from the wound of exit, and the everted margins of the ...

— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins