Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In auscultation, the character of the sound of the auscultator's own voice when his head is placed against the chest of the patient. When there is a large cavity this sound may be rendered of greater intensity than is normal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.

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  • noun The unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice, breathing or other self-generated sounds.
  • noun medicine An auscultatory process which consists of noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.

Etymologies

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auto- + Ancient Greek a sound.

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Examples

  • The dad of two was experiencing autophony, one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, an illness that was unknown until 10 years ago.

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  • n. - the socializer who does not like to be alone autophony

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  • "Doctors were baffled when Stephen Mabbutt told them: 'I can hear my eyeballs moving.'

    But they finally diagnosed a rare ear condition in which sounds inside the body are heard very loudly. Stephen, 57, could also hear his heart beating - and when he chewed food the noise was deafening to him.

    The dad of two was experiencing autophony - one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome. The bizarre illness was unknown until ten years ago."

    - Emma Little, I can hear my own eyeballs , thesun.co.uk, 2 Aug 2011.

    August 2, 2011

  • Cf. bruit.

    August 2, 2011

  • Also see bone-conduction.

    August 3, 2011