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Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

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  1. a. Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
  2. adj. the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle
  3. Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
  4. Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled,and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an emptydecanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
  5. a the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle