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 ...
Rhonchi sounds have a continuous snoring, gurgling, or rattle-like quality. Rhonchi occur in the bronchi as air moves through tracheal-bronchial passages coated with mucus or respiratory secretions. This is often heard in pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, or cystic fibrosis. Rhonchi usually clear after...
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What were once called ‘rhonchi’ are now mostly referred to assonorous wheezes(though the terms are still used interchangeably). Sonorous wheezes are named thusly because they have a snoring, gurgling quality to them or are similar to a low-pitched moan, more prominent on exhalation. Sonorous ...
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. ...