Basal vs Rale - What's the difference?
basal | rale |
Relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
(chiefly, systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier.
(medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
* 1840 , CM Billard, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants , page 416:
* 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
* 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
Basal is a see also of rale.
As nouns the difference between basal and rale
is that basal is (anatomy) any basal structure or part while rale is (medicine|now chiefly in plural) an abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.As an adjective basal
is relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.basal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hittite is a basal Indo-European language.
- A magnolia is a basal angiosperm.
Derived terms
* basal metabolism * basal readerSee also
* basilar * ("basal" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
*rale
English
(rales)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .
