RHONCHUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: rhonchi   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("rhonchus" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

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