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Rale vs Rhonchus - What's the difference?

rale | rhonchus |

As nouns the difference between rale and rhonchus

is that rale is rabble, riff-raff while rhonchus is (medicine) a dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.

rale

English

(rales)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • * 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
    • 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.
  • * 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
    • 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 .

    Synonyms

    * crackles

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    See also

    * crackles, crepitations * bilateral; basal, basilar; bibasilar ----

    rhonchus

    English

    Noun

    (rhonchi)
  • (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 699:
    • “You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus .

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