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Definition of Fremitus
1. n., sing. & pl. Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.
Definition of Fremitus
1. Noun. A vibration which is perceptible on palpation or auscultation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fremitus
1. a palpable vibration [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Fremitus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fremitus
Literary usage of Fremitus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
""Tactile fremitus" is the name given to the sense of vibration ... The classical
method of testing tactile fremitus is to ask the patient to count "one, ..."
2. A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis: Comprising the Throat, Thorax, and Abdomen by Paul Guttmann (1880)
"Pleural fremitus limited to the apex, however, though it is very infrequent, ...
Pleural fremitus varies considerably in its duration; it sometimes remains ..."
3. Medical diagnosis: A Manual of Clinical Methods by John James Graham Brown (1884)
"Vocal fremitus, or that vibration of the chest wall which may be felt in a ...
The intensity of the vocal fremitus also depends upon the loudness of the ..."
4. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"TACTILE OR VOCAL fremitus fremitus is the tactile perception of vibrations, which
may be produced by (1) phonation (vocal fremitus), (2) coughing (tussive ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians by John Herr Musser (1913)
"fremitus is weaker in people with thick chest walls and large mammary glands
which interfere with the transmission of fremitus. The fremitus is not distinct ..."
6. Pulmonary tuberculosis and its complications, with special reference to by Sherman Grant Bonney (1908)
"The vocal fremitus varies in different parts of the chest, and there is a ...
Vocal fremitus is best appreciated when the patient is instructed to repeat ..."
7. Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest by Richard Clarke Cabot (1901)
"Tactile fremitus" is the name given to the sense of vibration ... The classical
method of testing tactile fremitus is to ask the patient to count "one, two, ..."
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