| Traube's plugs | Minute, dirty-grayish, ill-smelling masses of bacteria and fatty acid crystals in the sputum in pulmonary gangrene and fetid bronchitis. Synonym: Traube's plugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Traube's semilunar space | A crescentic space about 12 cm wide, bounded medially by the left border of the sternum, above by an oblique line from the sixth costal cartilage to the lower border of the eighth or ninth rib in the mid-axillary line and below by the costal margin; the percussion tone here is normally tympanitic, because of the underlying stomach, but is modified by pulmonary emphysema, a pleural effusion, or an enlarged spleen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Traube's sign | <clinical sign> A double sound or murmur heard in auscultation over arteries (particularly the femoral arteries) in significant aortic regurgitation. (05 Mar 2000) |