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rale |
2 definitions found 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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