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Williams tracheal tone

Williams tracheal tone (Ch. J. Century of Williams, the English doctor, 1805-1889) – the tympanic percussion sound (in certain cases the containing sounding shade of "the burst pot") found at percussion under a clavicle and which is most expressed when opening by the patient of a mouth; sign of a big pleural exudate.

 
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