Rhonchus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. ·see Rale.

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rhonchus
† rhonchus, i, m., = ῥόγχος. I A snoring , Mart. 3, 82, 30.— 2 Transf., the croaking of a frog...

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