A hollow, resonant quality in breath sounds heard through a stethoscope, resembling the sound of blowing across a bottle mouth; amphoricity.
From Greek 'amphoreus' (resembling an amphora/bottle) + '-ity' (noun suffix). Medical term describing abnormal lung sounds that echo like an empty vessel.
When doctors hear 'amphoric' breathing sounds, it's actually a sign of a cavity in the lung—the lungs are literally echoing like a bottle, which tells doctors exactly what's happening inside without surgery!
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