An abnormal lung sound heard during physical examination where voice vibrations through the bronchi sound unusually loud and clear, often indicating lung disease.
From broncho- (bronchi/lungs) + egophony (from Greek 'ego' meaning self + 'phone' meaning sound—literally 'self-sound'). Egophony is when a patient's spoken voice transmits unusually clearly through stethoscope.
Bronchoegophony is one of those cool diagnostic signs where if you listen to a patient's lungs with a stethoscope and they say 'eee,' it comes through sounding like 'aaa'—it tells doctors the lung tissue has changed from normal air-filled to fluid-filled!
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