different between rale vs rhonchus

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

Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.k?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.k?s/

Noun

rhonchus (plural rhonchi)

1. (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 699:

     “You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus.

Translations

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??k?s/

Noun

rhonchus f (plural rhonchi, diminutive rhonchuske n)

1. rhonchus

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Roman physician and writer on medical topics Caelius Aurelianus: borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhónkhos, “snoring, stertorous breathing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ron.k?us/, [?r??k??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ron.kus/, [?r??kus]

Noun

rhonchus m (genitive rhonch?); second declension

1. A snoring.
   1. (transferred sense) The croaking of a frog.
2. (figuratively) A sneering, sneer, jeer.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Dutch: rhonchus
• ? English: rhonchus

References

• rhonchus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press