bronchophony

Often, the patient does not have to speak for the physician to hear signs of bronchophony.

The whispered pectoriloquy test is similar to bronchophony, but not so much egophony.

Similar terms are bronchophony and whispered pectoriloquy.

Types include egophony and bronchophony.

In bronchophony, the physician often asks the patient to say "ninety-nine" or "baseball" while listening over a lung field with a stethoscope.

The only difference between whispered pectoriloquy and bronchophony is the volume at which the patient is asked by the clinician to repeat "ninety-nine" or "baseball."

That is, in whispered pectoriloquy, the repeated words are whispered at low volume, and in bronchophony, they are spoken at normal volume.

Somewhat related, bronchophony, a form of pectoriloquy is a conventional respiratory examination whereby the clinician auscultates the chest while asking the patient to repeat the word "ninety-nine".

Normally, the sound of the patient's voice becomes less distinct as the auscultation moves peripherally; bronchophony is the phenomenon of the patient's voice remaining loud at the periphery of the lungs or sounding louder than usual over a distinct area of consolidation, such as in pneumonia.