EGOPHONY
\iːɡˈə͡ʊfənˌɪ], \iːɡˈəʊfənˌɪ], \iː_ɡ_ˈəʊ_f_ə_n_ˌɪ]\
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By William R. Warner
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Laennec has designated by this name, the kind of resonance of the voice heard through the stethoscope, when we examine the chest of one labouring under moderate effusion into one of the pleurae. The voice, which strikes the ear through the cylinder, is more sharp and harsh than usual, and tremulous and broken, like that of the goat. The patient himself is called Egophone. Bouillaud affirms, that the 'bronchial and bleating voice,' (egobronchophonie) is the principal sympÂtom of pleuropneumonia. Egophony exists, howÂever, in cases of hepatization where there is no pleural disease.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A morbid modification of the sound of the voice as heard on auscultation, of a tremulous character supposed to resemble that of the bleating of a goat; heard in cases of pleurisy with effusion and in certain cases of pneumonia complicated with pleurisy. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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