(n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dyspnea was the principal complaint, and fine rales were common.
(2) The methodology revealed that the network used the presence of ECG findings, as well as the presence of rales, syncope, jugular venous distension, response to trinitroglycerin, and nausea and vomiting, as major predictive sources.
(3) Several variables were significantly (p less than 0.05) more common in the VT group: age older than 60 years, previous AMI, history of angina pectoris, occurrence of VT or ventricular fibrillation in the coronary care unit, left ventricular ejection fraction less than 30%, rales greater than bibasilar in the coronary care unit, and use of antiarrhythmic drugs, digitalis or diuretics at the time of discharge from hospital.
(4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
(5) Many authors feel the need to qualify "rales": sixteen descriptive adjectives were encountered.
(6) The patient was successfully treated with diuretics and nitrates but on the fifth hospital day moist rales were noted over the entire lung field.
(7) Examples are reported of clinical cases confirming the difficulties of diagnosis of recurring form of thromboembolism of the minor pulmonary artery branches and the following leading signs of the disease are singled out: elevation of the temperature, tachy- and orthopnea, prolonged retrosternal pain, crepitation and moist rales over the lungs, inversion of the T-wave and depression of the ST segment in the right thoracic leads.
(8) These cases involved elderly patients with progressive dyspnea and nonproductive cough, bilateral dry crackling rales, bilateral interstitial infiltrates evident on a chest roentgenogram, and restrictive findings on pulmonary function testing.
(9) An "obstructive element" is based on the presence of clinical signs like cough, wheezing and rales.
(10) After receiving cow's milk containing formula he presented with fever, tachypnea, diffuse rales and crepitations over both lungs.
(11) Clinical findings included fever (greater than or equal to 38 degrees C) (88%), rhinorrhea (62.6%), cough (50%), otitis (50%), rhonchi (42%), vomiting (38%), diarrhea (33%), rales (21%), pharyngitis (13%) and croup (4%).
(12) Chest examination revealed rales over the bilateral chest.
(13) There was a higher frequency of cough and rales and a small decrease in forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in one sec among the grain handlers, as compared to the civic workers matched for smoking.
(14) The following features were significantly associated with a bacterial etiology: age over 30 years, alcoholism, concomitant neoplasm, cough, coma, pulmonary rales, new neurological signs or petechia.
(15) Generalized lymphadenopathy and some rales over both lung bases were noted and a chest radiograph showed bilateral nodular lesions.
(16) In the absence of an obvious predisposition, the abrupt onset of a self-limited illness characterized by dyspnea, cyanosis, and low-grade fever associated with diffuse rales, hypoxemia, and alveolar infiltrates in dependent lobes should suggest aspiration.
(17) Significant correlations were observed between rales, the radiological score, some functional indices and the characteristics of fibrosis.
(18) Decreased breath sounds over affected lung areas were often the only findings on auscultation; find rales, rhonchi or dullness on percussion were less often heard.
(19) Findings occurring significantly more often (P less than or equal to .001) among cases than controls included pleuritic chest pain; acute sinus tenderness, and nasal discharge, epistaxis and eschar; rales; development of multilobar infiltrates after the 14th hospital day; and presence of nodular or cavitary infiltrates.
(20) Of 22 patients with the classical clinical signs of pulmonary oedema (orthopnoe, cyanosis, sweating and rales heard at a distance) 15 (Group A) were observed clinically, while seven (Group B) underwent haemodynamic studies.
Rare
Definition:
(a.) Early.
(superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
(superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
(superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
(superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
(superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
(2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(3) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(4) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(6) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(7) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
(8) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(9) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(10) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(11) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
(12) A rare case of an extradural brucellosis granuloma in the thoracic region is presented.
(13) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(14) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(15) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(16) Useful studies on the relationship between these acute lesions and peptic ulceration are rare.
(18) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(19) Metastatic tumors of the small bowel from extra-abdominal sites are rare.
(20) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.