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• pulling sensation of the trachea due to aneurysm of arch of the aorta.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

• A sign of thoracic aneurism consisting in the sense of downward traction of the larynx with the cardiac systole when the thyroid cartilage is gently raised between the finger and thumb.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe