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is the term used by doctors and nurses to describe the sound that they hear in the lungs of patients who have an obstruction in the airways, especially when the wheezing patient is blowing air out of the lungs (exhaling). Many times asthmatics who are uncontrolled will be wheezing. Importantly, many asthmatics do not wheeze, even when they are having severe breathing problems due to the build up of mucus in their tightening bronchial tubes.
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| wheeze |
a high- or low-pitched breath sound produced when lower airway passages are narrowed, usually during exhalation
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| wheeze |
an adventitious or abnormal breath sound heard when listening to the chest as a person breathes. Wheezes are continuous and musical sounding, and usually caused by airway obstruction from swelling or secretions. Wheezes can be high or low pitched, and are also known as rhonchi.
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