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rale

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4 lettersPronunciation /ɹɑːl/Part of speech nounSorted aelrStarts with REnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

Word origin

From French râle (“groan”).

Used in a sentence

  • If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle’ he would not be alarmed.
  • But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.

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