BRONCHIAL BREATHING

Breath sounds of a harsh or blowing characteristic, heard on auscultation of the chest, made by air moving in the big bronchi and hardly, if at all, modified by the intervening lung; duration of the expiratory sound is as long as or longer than that of the inspiratory sound, and its pitch as tall as or higher than that of the inspiratory sound; may be heard over a consolidated lung, above a pleural effusion due to an underlying compressed lung, and rarely over a pulmonary cavity; whispered pectoriloquy is other manifestation that generally can be elicited when bronchial breathing is gift.