rale
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/ɹɑːl/
(UK)
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/ɹɑːl/ (UK) · /ɹɑl/ (US) · /ɹæl/ (US) · /ɹeɪl/ (US)
Definition of rale
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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.
“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.”
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Etymology
From French râle (“groan”).
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