单词 | autophony |
释义 | autophonyn. Medicine. 1. A method of auscultation in which the auscultator, speaking with his or her ear placed on the patient's chest or to the stethoscope, listens for changes in the resonance of his own voice. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > auscultation > autophony autophony1840 1840 Med. Times 21 Nov. 93/2 In cases where the voice of the patient is either extinct, or too feeble to reverberate from the chest, the practitioner may have recourse to autophony, or the use of his own voice against the chest of the patient. 1841 Periscope July in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 35 188 He utterly rejects the idea of admitting the recently proposed auscultatory phenomenon, which has been termed autophony, and which consists in the (alleged) modification in the tone of the auscultator's own voice. 1862 H. W. Fuller On Dis. Chest 124 Autophony, either directly or through the intervention of a stethoscope..in aid of the diagnosis of thoracic disease. 1902 S. H. West Dis. Organs Respiration II. 473 There are two other modifications of vocal resonance which deserve mention, both of which may be termed autophony... In the other the auscultator hears his own voice with undue loudness if he speaks while his ear is on the chest or stethoscope. 2. Altered perception of the sound of one's own voice and breathing, typically occurring as a symptom of disease of the Eustachian tube. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] hearingc1230 audiencea1393 audition1656 autophony1871 phonoreception1940 1871 Arch. Ophthalmol. & Otol. 2 108 Gruber has published, under the title of ‘Autophony and Tympanophony’, a short communication on two cases of severe tubal catarrh, in which the patient's own voice as well as the respiration was not only very annoying to the patient himself, but was also strikingly perceptible by means of the otoscope. 1883 Arch. Otol. 12 238 The question is whether autophony is produced only by insufficient closure of the tube or by the opposite condition, the obstruction of the Eustachian canal. 1902 S. H. West Dis. Organs Respiration II. 473 There are two other modifications of vocal resonance which deserve mention, both of which may be termed autophony. In the one the patient himself feels the increased vibrations of his own voice, and refers them correctly to the seat of disease. 1937 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Feb. 263/1 In either case complete intermittent deafness with autophony and tinnitus will result. 1975 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 22 Mar. 685/1 She could hear her own breathing and her voice (autophony) ‘both inside and outside’ her head. 2009 P. Rea in D. Baguley & J. Graham Ballantyne's Deafness (ed. 7) xxiv. 281/1 Auditory symptoms include autophony and aural fullness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1840 |
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