See Also: hyperresonance(medicine)

rinkhals (iou) and hyperresonance (medicine)


rinkhals (iou)



rinkhals noun. . Pl. same. L18.
[Afrikaans, from ring ring + hals neck.]
A large venomous hooded spitting cobra of southern Africa, Hemachatus haemachatus, of the family Elapidae, having a brown or black skin with one or two white rings across the neck.

hyperresonance (medicine)


hyperresonance


1. An extreme degree of resonance.

2. Resonance increased above the normal, and often of lower pitch, on percussion of an area of the body; occurs in the chest due to overinflation of the lung as in emphysema or pneumothorax and in the abdomen over a distended bowel.