Basilar vs Rale - What's the difference?
basilar | rale |
Of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or a lung.
Lower; inferior; base.
* Henry Ward Beecher
(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 :
Basilar is a see also of rale.
As an adjective basilar
is of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or a lung.As a noun 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.basilar
English
Alternative forms
* basilaryAdjective
(en adjective)- Basilar instincts.
Derived terms
* basilar artery * basilar crest * basilar groove * basilar index * basilar lamina * basilar membrane * basilar meningitisSee also
* basalrale
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(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 .
