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Rhonchus

//ˈɹɑŋ.kəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.

    "“You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus."

  2. 2
    a sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.

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