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amphoriloquy

amphoriloquy noun: a condition where the voice is characterized by amphoric sound over the patient's lung cavity.

Noun

amphoriloquy (uncountable)

  1. A condition where the voice is characterized by amphoric sound over the patient's lung cavity.
    • Amphoric voice, or amphoriloquy of cavities. — The cavernous direct pectoriloquy, or thoracic voice of the third stage of phthisis, occasionally is found to partake of a hollow vessel, pitcher, or amphoric tone.1861, Somerville Scott Alison, The physical examination of the chest in pulmonary consumption, page 204
    • Amphoric echo is simply the reverberation of the voice, cough, or breath sound, in such a cavity. The same sort of cavity is required for amphorophony or amphoriloquy as in the case of amphoric resonance on percussion, amphoric respiration, and metallic or amphoric tinkle.1889, Richard Channing Moore Page, A Handbook of physical diagnosis of diseases of the organs of respiration

Questions about amphoriloquy

What does amphoriloquy mean?
Amphoriloquy means a condition where the voice is characterized by amphoric sound over the patient's lung cavity.
What part of speech is amphoriloquy?
Amphoriloquy is a noun.

Words near amphoriloquy in the dictionary

  1. amphoras
  2. amphoreis
  3. amphoreus
  4. amphoric
  5. amphoricity
  6. amphoriloquy
  7. amphoriscid
  8. amphoriscids
  9. amphoriskoi
  10. amphoriskos
  11. amphostat B

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