Definitions
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.
Etymologies
- ego- + -phony (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘egophony’.
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Goats
goat, goats, goatee, goatsbeard, The Goat, or Who ..., scapegoat, Goats Head Soup, billy goat, nanny goat, he-goat, she-goat, Goat Island and 58 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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ruzuzu "While listening to the lungs with a stethoscope, the patient is asked to say the letter "e." What is heard is a higher pitched sound that sounds like the letter "a." Some doctors refer to this as "e to a transition." Most commonly, this indicates pneumonia.
In the UK it is conventional on respiratory examination to auscultate the chest while asking the patient to repeat the word "ninety-nine". There is, however, regional variation with medical students and doctors from Edinburgh and Glasgow often preferring the phrase "one-one-one" due to its more rounded sound."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egophony&oldid=450210254) Sep 12, 2012
hernesheir aegophony
Ego + phony invites one to *snort* rather than *bleat*, doesn't it? Nov 22, 2010