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 thetone of theobserver 's ownvoice , while he speaks, holding his head close to thepatient 'schest .
Etymologies
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auto- + Ancient Greek a sound.
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Examples
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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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bilby commented on the word autophony
"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
ruzuzu commented on the word autophony
Cf. bruit.
August 2, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word autophony
Also see bone-conduction.
August 3, 2011