different between rale vs gasp

English

Etymology

From French râle (“groan”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æl/

Noun

rale (plural rales)

1. (medicine, now chiefly 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.
   • 1861, Austin Flint, American Medical Times, 7 Dec 1961:

     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.

   • 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, Round Red Lamp:

     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.

Synonyms

• crackles

See also

• crackles, crepitations
• bilateral; basal, basilar; bibasilar

Translations

Anagrams

• Arel, Earl, Elar, Lare, Lear, Rael, Raël, Real, earl, lare, lear, real

Portuguese

Verb

rale

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ralar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of ralar
3. third-person singular imperative of ralar

English

Etymology

From Middle English gaspen, gayspen (“to gape, outbreathe”), related to and likely derived from Old Norse geispa (“to yawn”) or its descendant Danish gispe, which may be related to gapa (“to gape”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???sp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æsp/
• Rhymes: -æsp

Verb

gasp (third-person singular simple present gasps, present participle gasping, simple past and past participle gasped)

1. (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.

2. (intransitive) To breathe laboriously or convulsively.

   We were all gasping when we reached the summit.

   • c. 1761-1764, Robert Lloyd, An Epistle to C. Churchill, Author of the Rosicad

     She gasps and struggles hard for life.

3. (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.

4. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

   • Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.

Translations

Noun

gasp (plural gasps)

1. A short, sudden intake of breath.

2. (Britain, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).

Derived terms

• last gasp

Translations

Interjection

gasp

1. (humorous) The sound of a gasp.

   Gasp! What will happen next?

References

Anagrams

• A-GPS, AGPs, GPAs, PASG, SPAG, gaps, spag

Westrobothnian

Noun

gasp n

1. loud talking, joking, fun

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