amphoriloquy

English

amphoriloquy (uncountable)

(medicine) A condition where the voice is characterized by amphoric sound over the patient's lung cavity.
- 1861, Somerville Scott Alison, The physical examination of the chest in pulmonary consumption, page 204:
  Amphoric voice, or amphoriloquy of cavities. — The cavernous direct pectoriloquy, or thoracic voice of the third stage of phthisis, occasionally is found to partake of a hollow vessel, pitcher, or amphoric tone.
- 1889, Richard Channing Moore Page, A Handbook of physical diagnosis of diseases of the organs of respiration:
  Amphoric echo is simply the reverberation of the voice, cough, or breath sound, in such a cavity. The same sort of cavity is required for amphorophony or amphoriloquy as in the case of amphoric resonance on percussion, amphoric respiration, and metallic or amphoric tinkle.