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pectoriloquy Path.|pɛktəˈrɪləkwɪ|
[ad. F. pectoriloquie, f. L. pectus, pector- breast + -loquium speaking.]
The transmission of the sound of the voice through the wall of the chest to the ear in auscultation; usually a sign of a cavity or some other affection in the lung.
1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest. (ed. 4) 36 This peculiar phenomenon (which I have denominated Pectoriloquy). 1853Markham tr. Skoda's Auscult. 290 The pectoriloquy is..much clearer and louder..in a gangrenous excavation, than in one formed by pulmonary abscess.
So pectoriloquial |pɛktərɪˈləʊkwɪəl|, pectoriloquous |pɛktəˈrɪləkwəs| adjs., of, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy; pectoˈriloquism, pectoriloquy.
1846Worcester, *Pectoriloquial, relating to pectoriloquy. Museum.
1834Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 524 To this apparent transfer of the voice to the chest..[Laennec] has given the..name of *pectoriloquism, or mediate auscultation of the voice. 1834Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 47/2 There was no metallic tinkling, bourdonnement, or pectoriloquism.
1862H. W. Fuller Dis. Lungs 111 The production of *pectoriloquous resonance. |