pectoriloquy

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Etymology

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From Latin pectus, pectoris (chest, breast) + -loquy, from Latin loquor (to speak).

Noun

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pectoriloquy (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) An increased resonance, or a distinctly articulated voice, heard during auscultation.
    • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 184:
      Mucous rattle with large bubbles in the whole anterior part of the chest; kind of suspicious snoring in the right side; respiration loud on the back part, and pectoriloquy very strong in the region of the right scapula.

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