fremitus

American  

[frem-i-tuhs] / ˈfrɛm ɪ təs /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. palpable vibration, as of the walls of the chest.

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fremitus British  

/ ˈfrɛmɪtəs /

noun

1. med a vibration felt by the hand when placed on a part of the body, esp the chest, when the patient is speaking or coughing

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• fremitus
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fremitus

1810–20; < New Latin, Latin: a roaring, murmuring, equivalent to fremi-, variant stem of fremere to roar, murmur + -tus suffix of v. action