Term
Normal breath sound
Bronchial (Tracheal) |
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Definition
High Pitch
Loud
During inspiration and expiration
Harsh, hollow tubular
around trachea and larynx |
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Normal Breath Sound
Bronchovesicular |
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Definition
moderate pitch
moderate amplitude
during inspiration and expiration
mixed quality
heard over major bronchi where fewer alveoli are located |
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Normal Breath Sound
Vesicular
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Definition
Low pitch
soft amplitude
heard during inspiration and expiration
rusting, like the sound of the wind in the trees
heard over the peripheral lung fields where air flows through smaller bronchioles and alveoli |
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Term
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Definition
| discontinuous, high pitched, short crackling, popping sounds heard during inspiration that are not cleared by coughing |
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Term
Crackles - course
(Rales) |
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Definition
| Loud, low pitched, bubbling and gurgling sounds that start in early inspiration and may be present in expiration; may decrease somewhat by suctioning or coughing |
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Term
Atelectatic crackles
(Atelectactic rales) |
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Definition
| fine crackles that do not last and are not pathologic, disappear after first few breaths. Will go away, sacs are collapsed |
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Definition
Superficial sound that is course and low pitched
sounds like leather being rubbed together, caused when pleurae become inflammed and lose their normal lubricating fluid |
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Definition
| High pitched, musical squeaking sounds that sound polymonic |
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Term
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Definition
| low pitched monophonic single note, musical snoring, moanind sounds: they are heard throughout the cycle |
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High pitched, monophonic, inspiratory, crowing sound, louder in neck than over chest wall
originates in larynx or trachea, upper airway obstruction from swollen, inflamed tissues or lodged foreign body |
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Definition
"99"
normal voice transmission is soft, muffled, and indistinct; can hear sound through stethoscope, but can not distinguish what exactly is being said
Abnormal finding if you can hear "99" clearly |
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Definition
Goat voice
ee-ee-ee-ee
sounds like eeeee if normal
if sounds like long aaaaa, abnormal
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Term
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Definition
whisper one, two, three as you ascultate
normal if faint and almost non audible
if you can hear the whisper, abnormal
abnormal finding indicates solidation |
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