Rale

//ɹɑl//

Synonyms for "rale" (5 found)

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Noun(2 words)

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Translations

18 translations across 16 languages.

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Arabic

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  • كراكر noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Catalan

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  • crepitant noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)
  • ranera noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 囉音 /啰音 noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Finnish

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  • rahina noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

French

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  • crépitants noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)
  • râle noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

German

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  • Rasselgeräusch noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Italian

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  • rantolo noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Japanese

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  • 囉音 noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Persian

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  • کراکل noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Polish

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  • rzężenia noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Portuguese

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  • rala noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Russian

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  • хрип noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Spanish

1 entries
  • crepitante noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Swedish

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  • rassel noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Thai

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  • เสียงแซมหายใจ noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Turkish

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  • ral noun (abnormal sound made by lungs and heard with a stethoscope)

Sample sentences

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Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.

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If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle’ he would not be alarmed.

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But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.

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