rale

Definitions

An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.

in-plural

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Examples

“Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.”

“If you were to tell⟳ a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine⟳ that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle’ he would not be alarmed.”

“But after all the educated classes have⟳ a right to expect⟳ that their medical man will know⟳ the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.”

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