bronchophonyn.
/brɒŋˈkɒfəni/ Medicine.
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.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > sounds heard in auscultation
bombus1753
hydatism1753
pectoriloquism1820
murmur1821
resonance1821
snoring1822
thrill1822
râle1825
pectoriloquy1826
respiration1826
rhonchus1827
bronchophonism1834
bronchophony1834
hum1839
tick-tack1853
friction-sound1860
friction-fremitus1877
sibilus1887
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 37 In persons, however, of a delicate and feeble frame..there frequently exists..a bronchophony very similar to the laryngophony already noticed.
1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 128 The bronchophony has sometimes a tremulous character, and is then ægophony.
Derivatives
bronchoˈphonic adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [adjective] > sounds in auscultation
puerile1821
pectoriloquous1824
large1827
sibilant1833
tubular1834
moist1843
rhonchal1843
pectoriloquial1846
redux1848
murmurish1851
rhonchial1852
bronchophonic1862
sticky1872
coarse1879
skodaic1882
1862 H. W. Fuller On Dis. Chest 109 Not appearing to pass through the stethoscope into the ear, but concentrated as it were beneath the stethoscope (bronchophonic resonance).
a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 897 A bronchophonic cry.
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