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1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) Preliminary Ess. iv. 49 For want of a better or more generic term I use the word rattle or rhonchus to express all the sounds, beside those of health, which the act of respiration gives rise to, from the passage of the air through fluids in the bronchia or lungs, or by its transmission through any of the air passages partially contracted.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 227 The mucous, the sonorous, and the sibilant ronchus.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 144 Crepitation and sibilant rhonchus.

1929 Tubercle 10 161 The child shows some defect of resonance and alterations in the breath sounds at one or both bases,..with increased dullness, râles, often superficial, and fine rhonchi over the affected areas.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 25 Jan. 171/2 Our patients were selected from this population on the basis of having the classic clinical picture of typhoid fever, including abdominal discomfort, headache, cough, fever, relative bradycardia, coated tongue, rhonchi and splenomegaly.

1992 Age & Ageing 21 44/1 Crepitations were distinguished from rhonchi and were defined as moist, crackling sounds on inspiration or expiration.

2007 Interpreting Signs & Symptoms 232/1 Auscultation reveals diminished breath sounds, scattered crackles, and sibilant rhonchi over the affected lung.