In medicine, relating to egophony, a condition where spoken sounds are distorted in a particular way when heard through a stethoscope over affected lung areas.
From ego- (self) plus -phonic (relating to sound, from Greek phone). The term describes a phenomenon where the patient's voice seems to become exaggerated or transformed, hence the self-related prefix.
Egophonic is a medical term that's genuinely weird—it literally means the patient's own voice gets distorted and magnified in a specific way, so doctors can hear a sign of lung disease just by listening to how the voice changes.
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