PECTORILOQUY
\pˈɛktɔːɹˌɪləkwˌɪ], \pˈɛktɔːɹˌɪləkwˌɪ], \p_ˈɛ_k_t_ɔː_ɹ_ˌɪ_l_ə_k_w_ˌɪ]\
Definitions of PECTORILOQUY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.
By Oddity Software
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The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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Same etymon. Speech or voice coming from the chest. Laennec has designated, by this name, the phenomenon often presented by consumptive individuals, when their chests are examined with the stethoscope. The voice seems to issue directly from the chest, and to pass through the central canal of the cylinder, -a phenomenon owing to the voice resounding in the anfractuous cavities, produced in the lungs by the suppuration or breaking down of tubercles, which constitute abscesses or ulcers of the lungs. By some, it is not separated from bronchophony, having been termed, at times, strong bronchophony, and pectoriloquous bronchophony. See Laryngophony. Whispering pectoriloquy is that produced by the whispering of the patient.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe