amphoriloquyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

amphoriloquy ‎(uncountable)

1. (medicine) A condition where the voice is characterized by amphoric sound over the patient's lung cavity.
   • 1861, Somerville Scott Alison, The physical examination of the chest in pulmonary consumption, page 204:

     Amphoric voice, or amphoriloquy of cavities. — The cavernous direct pectoriloquy, or thoracic voice of the third stage of phthisis, occasionally is found to partake of a hollow vessel, pitcher, or amphoric tone.

   • 1889, Richard Channing Moore Page, A Handbook of physical diagnosis of diseases of the organs of respiration:

     Amphoric echo is simply the reverberation of the voice, cough, or breath sound, in such a cavity. The same sort of cavity is required for amphorophony or amphoriloquy as in the case of amphoric resonance on percussion, amphoric respiration, and metallic or amphoric tinkle.