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PECTORILOQUY

Definition: PECTORILOQUY

PECTORILOQUY

Noun

1. The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Pectoriloquy \Pec`to*ril"o*quy\, noun. [Latin expression pectus, -oris, the breast loqui to speak: compare to the French expression pectoriloquie.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: PECTORILOQUY

English words defined with "PECTORILOQUY": Pectoriloquial, Pectoriloquism. (references)

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Modern Translations: PECTORILOQUY

Language Translations for "PECTORILOQUY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

pectoriloqui. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pectoriloquie. (various references)

   

French

  

pectoriloquie. (various references)

   

German

  

Pektoriloquie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σπηλαιώδης φωνή, στηθολαλιά. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pettoriloquia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ectoriloquypay

   

Portuguese

  

pectoriloquia. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pectoriloquia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PECTORILOQUY"

Words rhyming with "PECTORILOQUY" (pronounced 'Pec`to*ril"o*quy'): Alloquy, Ambiloquy, Antiloquy, Centiloquy, Colloquy, Dentiloquy, Dulciloquy, Exequy, Gastriloquy, Multiloquy, Obloquy, Obsequy, Pauciloquy, soliloquy, somniloquy, Stultiloquy, Suaviloquy, Ventriloquy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PECTORILOQUY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-p-q-r-t-u-y"

-3 letters: coprolite, eurytopic.

-4 letters: coquetry, croupily, cryolite, epicotyl, leprotic, lipocyte, locutory, outprice, petrolic, polyuric, poultice.

-5 letters: cliquey, cloture, clouter, coopery, copilot, coquito, couloir, coulter, coupler, couplet, courtly, croquet, cruelty, culprit, cuprite, cutlery, loopier, octuple, octuply, outcrop, outlier, outyelp, peloric, picquet, picture, piroque, poitrel, politer, polycot, portico, poulter, poultry, poutier, precool, protyle, pyloric, pyretic, quietly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PECTORILOQUY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 45 43 54 4F 52 49 4C 4F 51 55 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01001100 01001111 01010001 01010101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#81 &#85 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052 0049 004C 004F 0051 0055 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

503937544952434649515559

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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