| bronchial fremitus | Adventitious pulmonary sounds or voice sounds perceptible to the hand resting on the chest, as well as by the ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| vocal fremitus | The vibration in the chest wall, felt on palpation, produced by the spoken voice. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pericardial fremitus | Vibration in the chest wall produced by the friction of opposing roughened surfaces of the pericardium. See: pericardial rub. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rhonchal fremitus | Fremitus produced by vibrations from the passage of air in the bronchial tubes partially obstructed by mucous secretion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural fremitus | Vibration in the chest wall produced by a friction rub resulting from the rubbing together of the roughened inflamed opposing surfaces of the pleura. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hydatid fremitus | The peculiar trembling or vibratory sensation felt on palpation of a hydatid cyst. Synonym: Blatin's syndrome, hydatid fremitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subjective fremitus | Vibration felt within the chest by the patient himself, when humming with the mouth closed; or fremitus felt when there is a rough, pericardial or pleural friction rub, particularly when pain is minimal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tactile fremitus | Vibration felt with the hand on the chest during vocal fremitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tussive fremitus | A form of fremitus similar to the vocal, produced by a cough. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fremitus | <clinical sign> A tremor vibration in any part of the body that is detectable by palpation. (07 Apr 1998) |
| bronchial | <anatomy> Pertaining to one or more bronchi. Origin: L. Bronchialis (13 Nov 1997) |
| bronchial adenoma | <radiology> Most common benign lung tumour (but only 1/50 as common as carcinoma), malignant potential, 75% resemble carcinoid tumour or cylindroma, possibly benign form of oaT-cell tumour, haemoptysis, bronchial obstruction most likely to be air-trapping (12 Dec 1998) |
| bronchial anatomy | <radiology> Normal anatomy: right bronchus: eparterial, left bronchus: hyparterial, may help determine situs (12 Dec 1998) |
| bronchial arteries | Left bronchial arteries arise from the thoracic aorta, the right from the first aortic intercostal or the upper left bronchial artery; they supply the bronchi and the lower trachea. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bronchial asthma | A condition of the lungs in which there is widespread narrowing of airways, varying over short periods of time either spontaneously or as a result of treatment, due in varying degrees to contraction (spasm) of smooth muscle, oedema of the mucosa, and mucus in the lumen of the bronchi and bronchioles; these changes are caused by the local release of spasmogens and vasoactive substances (e.g., histamine, or certain leukotrienes or prostaglandins) in the course of an allergic process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bronchial atresia | Severe focal narrowing or obliteration of a segmental or lobar bronchus, usually associated with distal air trapping. (05 Mar 2000) |