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noun a sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels
originBorrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.
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