Medicine. A humming or buzzing noise in the intestines, ears, etc.

A sound produced by motion of effused fluid in a cavity of the body.

= pectoriloquy, n.

Medicine. Any of various auscultatory sounds; (originally) the quiet rustling sound of normal respiration (more fully respiratory murmur); (later)…

Medicine. The intensified sound heard during auscultation or percussion of the lungs or other part of the body that usually contains air or other…

spec. in Pathology (see quots.).

Physiology and Pathology. A vibratory movement, resonance, or murmur, felt or heard in auscultation.

An abnormal breath sound heard with the stethoscope during auscultation of the chest, esp. a crackling or bubbling sound.

Transmission of the voice through the chest wall, heard with a stethoscope and indicating either a cavity or consolidation in the lung.

Medicine. With distinguishing word: any of various normal or abnormal breath sounds heard by auscultation.

An abnormal sound heard during auscultation of the chest, having a musical quality with either a high pitch (more fully sibilant rhonchus) or a low…

= bronchophony, n.

The sound of the voice heard in the bronchi by means of the stethoscope; esp. the increased vocal resonance heard in certain diseased conditions…

Medicine. In full venous hum. A continuous humming sound sometimes heard during auscultation in the upper chest and the sides of the neck, esp. in…

In auscultation, The sound of the heart-beat. (Usually in French form tic-tac.)

(see quot.).

= friction-sound n.

Pathology. A sibilant râle.