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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.