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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rale \R[^a]le\, n. [F. r[^a]le. Cf {Rail} the bird.] (Med.)
An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying
the normal respiratory sounds. See {Rhonchus}.
Note: Various kinds are distinguished by pathologists;
differing in intensity, as loud and small in quality,
as moist, dry, clicking, and sonorous; and in origin,
as tracheal, pulmonary, and pleural.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rale
n : the crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with
respiratory diseases inhale [syn: {crepitation rale}]
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