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- noun (Med.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.
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- noun medicine A
bleating sound sometimes observed in patients with variouslung conditions
Etymologies
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ego- + -phony
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hernesheir commented on the word egophony
aegophony
Ego + phony invites one to *snort* rather than *bleat*, doesn't it?
November 22, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word egophony
"While listening to the lungs with a stethoscope, the patient is asked to say the letter "e." What is heard is a higher pitched sound that sounds like the letter "a." Some doctors refer to this as "e to a transition." Most commonly, this indicates pneumonia.
In the UK it is conventional on respiratory examination to auscultate the chest while asking the patient to repeat the word "ninety-nine". There is, however, regional variation with medical students and doctors from Edinburgh and Glasgow often preferring the phrase "one-one-one" due to its more rounded sound."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egophony&oldid=450210254)
September 12, 2012