amphoric

English

Etymology

amphora +‎ -ic

Adjective

amphoric (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Produced by or indicating a hollow cavity in the lungs, giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter.

   amphoric respiration or resonance

Translations

produced by or indicating a hollow cavity in the lungs

• French: amphorique (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: anfórico

See also

• amphoricity

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “amphoric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• amorphic