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rale


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rale  \R[^a]le\,  n.  [F.  r[^a]le.  Cf  {Rail}  the  bird.]  (Med.) 
  An  adventitious  sound,  usually  of  morbid  origin,  accompanying 
  the  normal  respiratory  sounds.  See  {Rhonchus}. 
 
  Note:  Various  kinds  are  distinguished  by  pathologists; 
  differing  in  intensity,  as  loud  and  small  in  quality, 
  as  moist,  dry,  clicking,  and  sonorous;  and  in  origin, 
  as  tracheal,  pulmonary,  and  pleural. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rale 
  n  :  the  crackling  sound  heard  on  auscultation  when  patients  with 
  respiratory  diseases  inhale  [syn:  {crepitation  rale}] 




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