Dale vs Rale - What's the difference?
dale | rale |
(UK) a valley in an otherwise hilly area.
* Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,'' - ''
A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
(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 :
As nouns the difference between dale and rale
is that dale is a valley in an otherwise hilly area while rale is 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 a proper noun Dale
is {{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living in a dale.dale
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* dell, dells * vale * valleyAnagrams
* * * * ----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 .
