Usually means: Abnormal breath sound, resembling snoring.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhonchus: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhonchus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. rhonchus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rhonchus: Vocabulary.com
  5. rhonchus: Wordnik
  6. rhonchus: Wiktionary
  7. rhonchus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. rhonchus: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. rhonchus: Dictionary.com
  10. Rhonchus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Rhonchus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. rhonchus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. rhonchus: Rhymezone
  14. Rhonchus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. rhonchus: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rhonchus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rhonchus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhonchus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. rhonchus: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rhonchus)

▸ noun:  (medicine) A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.

Similar:
snore, rhinorrhea, rhinorrhoea, rhinorrhœa, raucidity, resp, rhinomanometer, rhinovirus, cold, raucousness, more...

Phrases:
sibilant rhonchus, more...

Adjectives:
mucous, crepitant, sonorous, sibilant, subcrepitant, dry, little, cavernous, loud, pitched, fine

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Similar:
snore, rhinorrhea, rhinorrhoea, rhinorrhœa, raucidity, resp, rhinomanometer, rhinovirus, cold, raucousness, more...

Phrases:
sibilant rhonchus, more...

Adjectives:
mucous, crepitant, sonorous, sibilant, subcrepitant, dry, little, cavernous, loud, pitched, fine



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