Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The transmission of the voice so that it is heard distinctly articulated in auscultation of the chest. It may be found over consolidated lungs, over a cavity, and sometimes in health.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology An increased resonance, or a distinctly articulated voice, heard during auscultation
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) 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.
Examples
“There was general dulness throughout the lower part of both, with the exception of a small space at the inferior angle of the left scapula, where pectoriloquy was distinctly heard, from which was concluded the cavernous state of a portion of that lung.”
“In examining the chest with the ear, the sound, from the distinct pectoriloquy, indicated a cavernous state of both lungs; otherwise the bruit was obscure.”
“Where the lungs are cavernous, it is very easy to discover pectoriloquy, from the contrast to the general dulness, and when pleuritic and pericardial effusion advance much, it is difficult to ascertain the cardiac action.”
“Bronchophoney, aegophony and whispering pectoriloquy may be present”
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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-loquy
From Latin loquium, speech, speaking (loquī, to speak). Archaisms, medical terms, and a few surviving into (near-)common speech. Comments soon!
The -quy is a slightly gangling syllabl...soliloquy, colloquy, ventriloquy, somniloquy, grandiloquy, gastriloquy, magniloquy, obloquy, blandiloquy, multiloquy, parciloquy, partiloquy and 25 more...
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