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Meaning of AMPHORIC

Pronunciation:  am'forik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle; "amphoric breathing indicates a cavity in the lung"
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Am*phor"ic\, a. (Med.)
Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not
filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into
an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
 
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