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Definition of Amphoric
1. Adjective. The sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle. "Amphoric breathing indicates a cavity in the lung"
Definition of Amphoric
1. a. Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
Definition of Amphoric
1. Adjective. (medicine) Produced by or indicating a hollow cavity in the lungs, giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amphoric
1. pertaining to the sound of blowing into a bottle [adj]
Medical Definition of Amphoric
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphoric
Literary usage of Amphoric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Auscultation and Percussion: Together with Other Methods of Physical by Samuel Jones Gee (1908)
"amphoric SOUNDS Or, sounds produced in a large cavity, are four in number: ...
By amphoric huml is meant metallic resonance, such as is produced by blowing, ..."
2. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"(6) amphoric resonance, obtainable over the trachea. Any of these sounds may
denote disease if obtained in portions of the chest where they are not normally ..."
3. Medical diagnosis: A Manual of Clinical Methods by John James Graham Brown (1884)
"The conditions necessary for the production of amphoric resonance are that ...
As in the tympanitic note, so also in the amphoric sound, the pitch of the ..."
4. Physical diagnosis by Howard Schultz Anders (1907)
"While the latter ceases immediately after the percussion stroke, the overtones
of this amphoric resonance, or metallic echo, die away more slowly. ..."
5. A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine by John Syer Bristowe (1880)
"The cause of this amphoric resonance is obviously the reverberation, ... The chief
conditions under which amphoric resonance manifests itself in connection ..."
6. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1842)
"Researches into the Physical Causes of Metallic Tinkling, or amphoric ... if the
wound had been made too large, the respiration acquires an amphoric sound. ..."
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