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Wheeze vs Rhonchus - What's the difference?

wheeze | rhonchus |

As nouns the difference between wheeze and rhonchus

is that wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration while rhonchus is (medicine) a dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.

As a verb wheeze

is to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

wheeze

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  • (British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan
  • * 2011 " Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:
    • The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
  • (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
    • The new comedy is a wheeze .
    You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • * 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
    • If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.

    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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