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bronchophony Med.|brɒŋˈkɒfənɪ|
[ad. F. bronchophonie, f. Gr. βρόγχος bronchus + -ϕωνία in abstr. derivs. of ϕωνή voice.]
The sound of the voice heard in the bronchi by means of the stethoscope; esp. the increased vocal resonance heard in certain diseased conditions of the lungs, imitating the voice-sound heard over the healthy bronchi.
1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest 37 In persons, however, of a delicate and feeble frame..there frequently exists..a bronchophony very similar to the laryngophony already noticed. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 131 The bronchophony has sometimes a tremulous or bleating character, and is then ægophony.
Hence bronchoˈphonic a.
1862H. W. Fuller Dis. Lungs 109 Not appearing to pass through the stethoscope into the ear, but concentrated as it were beneath the stethoscope (bronchophonic resonance). 1886Fagge Princ. & Prac. Med. I. 897 A bronchophonic cry. |