| vibratory | Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power. Origin: Cf. F. Vibratoire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| vibratory massage | Very rapid tapping of the surface effected by means of an instrument, usually with an elastic tip. Synonym: seismotherapy, sismotherapy, vibrotherapeutics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vibratory sensibility | The appreciation of vibration, a form of pressure sense; most acute when a vibrating tuning fork is applied over a bony prominence. Synonym: bone sensibility, pallesthetic sensibility, vibratory sensibility. Origin: G. Pallo, to quiver, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| vibratory urticaria | A form of urticaria that occurs in response to vibratory stimuli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| vocal fremitus | The vibration in the chest wall, felt on palpation, produced by the spoken voice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |