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a sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels

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Rhonchi is a coarse rattling respiratory sound somewhat like snoring, usually caused by secretion in bronchial airways. Rhonchi is the plural form of the singular word rhonchus. Since the mid-1990s, it has no longer been considered appropriate terminology in auscultation of the thorax as there has been much confusion in the published literature which confuses this between crepitations and wheezes, so the exact nature of this term is unclear (see Fleischner Society for standardized terminology)^{[citation needed]}. Similarly rales are no longer used in much of Europe, North America and Australia with regard to description of auscultatory findings. More appropriate terms for auscultation of the thorax are respiratory sounds, and adventitious sounds (wheezes, crackles, pleural rubs).

Description

These have variably been associated with low-pitched, continuous sounds that are similar to wheezes and / or crackles.

Related techniques

Other terminology for sounds that may be auscultated in the thorax include crackles, wheezes, pleural rubs, pulmonary murmurs, egophony, whispering pectoriloquy and vocal fremitus. Also, percussion is often used to assess diseases of the chest.

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Adventitious Sounds of Respiratory System

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English Journal

Wheezing recognition algorithm using recordings of respiratory sounds at the mouth in a pediatric population.

Bokov P1, Mahut B2, Flaud P3, Delclaux C4.
Computers in biology and medicine.Comput Biol Med.2016 Mar 1;70:40-50. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.01.002. Epub 2016 Jan 8.
BACKGROUND: Respiratory diseases in children are a common reason for physician visits. A diagnostic difficulty arises when parents hear wheezing that is no longer present during the medical consultation. Thus, an outpatient objective tool for recognition of wheezing is of clinical value.METHOD: We d
PMID 26802543

Towards the standardisation of lung sound nomenclature.

Pasterkamp H1, Brand PL2, Everard M3, Garcia-Marcos L4, Melbye H5, Priftis KN6.
The European respiratory journal.Eur Respir J.2016 Mar;47(3):724-32. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01132-2015. Epub 2015 Dec 2.
Auscultation of the lung remains an essential part of physical examination even though its limitations, particularly with regard to communicating subjective findings, are well recognised. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) Task Force on Respiratory Sounds was established to build a reference col
PMID 26647442

Innovation in Analysis of Respiratory Sounds.

Ohshimo S, Sadamori T, Tanigawa K.
Annals of internal medicine.Ann Intern Med.2016 Feb 16. doi: 10.7326/L15-0350. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID 26882464

Japanese Journal

喘鳴 (特大号症状からみた鑑別診断と臨床検査)

斎藤博久
小児科診療 66(11), 1975-1979, 2003-11
NAID 40005978993

百日咳ニ關スル統計的研究

三宅廉
京都府立医科大学雑誌 16(1/2/3/4), 1231-1263, 1936
… 12) Charge in the lungs: In many cases of bronchitis dry rhonchus is heard in right side, espeeially in the right lower lobe, moist rale is heard in most cases in the left lower lobe, then in the right lower lobe in slightly fewer cases. …
NAID 110007119383