Lung Sound Terminology

Terminology in chronic obstructive lung diseases.

Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis. Proposals made by a group of British doctors in 1959 gradually received widespread acceptance but in recent years some new problems have developed. These include difficulties in the definition of airflow obstruction, recognition that...

Descriptive educational terminology

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Towards the standardisation of lung sound nomenclature.

Auscultation of the lung remains an essential part of physical examination even though its limitations, particularly with regard to communicating subjective findings, are well recognised. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) Task Force on Respiratory Sounds was established to build a reference collection of audiovisual recordings of lung sounds that should aid in the standardisation of nomenc...

Pathology of interstitial lung diseases, with particular reference to terminology, classification and trephine lung biopsy.

Descriptive educational terminology

This article has no abstract.