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ASTHMATOID WHEEZE [1 record]

Record 1 2013-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A puffing sound heard in front of the patient's open mouth in a case of foreign body in the trachea or a bronchus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
CONT

Les bruits respiratoires anormaux. Il faut insister sur deux anomalies; l'une qui appartient à l'oedème pulmonaire subaigu : c'est le grésillement laryngé; l'autre, que provoque une néoplasie bronchique, c'est le sifflement pseudo-asthmatique ou wheezing, souvent perçu par le malade lui-même lorsqu'il respire la bouche ouverte.

OBS

sifflement pseudo-asthmatique : terme privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Spanish

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