Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In auscultation, the character of the sound of the auscultator's own voice when his head is placed against the chest of the patient. When there is a large cavity this sound may be rendered of greater intensity than is normal.
Wiktionary
- n. The unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice, breathing or other self-generated sounds.
- n. medicine An auscultatory process which consists of noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.
Etymologies
- auto- + Ancient Greek a sound. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The dad of two was experiencing autophony, one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, an illness that was unknown until 10 years ago.”
“n. - the socializer who does not like to be alone autophony”
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ruzuzu Also see bone-conduction. Aug 3, 2011
ruzuzu Cf. bruit. Aug 2, 2011
bilby "Doctors were baffled when Stephen Mabbutt told them: 'I can hear my eyeballs moving.'
But they finally diagnosed a rare ear condition in which sounds inside the body are heard very loudly. Stephen, 57, could also hear his heart beating - and when he chewed food the noise was deafening to him.
The dad of two was experiencing autophony - one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome. The bizarre illness was unknown until ten years ago."
- Emma Little, I can hear my own eyeballs , thesun.co.uk, 2 Aug 2011. Aug 2, 2011