Rhonchi (also called sonorous rhonchi) are loud, continuous, low-pitched, snoring, or gurgling lung sounds. Your doctor may be able to hear them best when you’re breathing out, but they may also hear them when you breathe in and out. The sound might move around to different parts of ...
Coarse crackles sound like coarse, rattling, crackling sounds that are louder, longer, and lower in pitch than fine crackles. They are described as a bubbling sound, as when pouring water out of a bottle or like ripping open Velcro. Coarse crackles are often heard just in certain spots in ...
but when inflamed, they stick together and make a sound like a harsh grating or creaking. A pleural friction rub often causes a great deal of pain, and the patient will splint their chest and resist breathing deeply to compensate.
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2.4. Rhonchi Sound Low-pitched, continuous noises called rhonchi have a snoring-like quality. Rhonchi can happen when exhaling or when exhaling and inhaling, but not when inhaling only. They take place as a result of fluid and other secretions moving about in the major airways. ...