Bronchoalveolar sound

Bronchial alveolar breath sounds are mixed breath sounds that have both the characteristics of bronchial breath sounds and alveolar breath sounds. Its breath sounds are similar to normal alveolar breath sounds, but with a higher and louder tone. The nature of the exhalation sound is similar to the bronchial breath sound, but the intensity is slightly weaker, the tone is slightly lower, the tube-like nature is shorter and the expiratory phase is shorter, there is a very short gap between inhalation and exhalation. The inspiratory and bronchoalveolar breathing sounds are approximately the same.

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