Usually means: Clear vocal resonance through lungs.
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  1. pectoriloquy: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. pectoriloquy: Wiktionary
  4. pectoriloquy: Dictionary.com
  5. Pectoriloquy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Pectoriloquy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. pectoriloquy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Pectoriloquy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. pectoriloquy: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pectoriloquy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. pectoriloquy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pectoriloquy)

▸ noun:  (medicine) An increased resonance, or a distinctly articulated voice, heard during auscultation.

Similar:
oxyphonia, resonance, egophony, gastriloquy, exophasia, autophony, aegophony, echopalilalia, dentiloquy, paraphonia clangens, more...

Opposite:
whispering, muttering, silence

Phrases:
Whispered pectoriloquy, more...

Adjectives:
whispered, perfect, imperfect, aphonic, distinct, cavernous, incomplete, spoken, vocal, loud

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Similar:
oxyphonia, resonance, egophony, gastriloquy, exophasia, autophony, aegophony, echopalilalia, dentiloquy, paraphonia clangens, more...

Opposite:
whispering, muttering, silence

Phrases:
Whispered pectoriloquy, more...

Adjectives:
whispered, perfect, imperfect, aphonic, distinct, cavernous, incomplete, spoken, vocal, loud



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