RALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rale mean? 

• RALE (noun)
  The noun RALE has 1 sense:

1. a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

  Familiarity information: RALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

rale; rattle; rattling

Context example:

the death rattle

Hypernyms ("rale" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rale"):

crepitation rale (the crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale; associated with tuberculosis and pneumonia and congestive heart failure)

 Context examples 

A classification of myocardial infarction characterized by rales over 50% or less of the lung fields or the presence of an S3.

(Killip Class II, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification of myocardial infarction characterized by rales over more than 50% of the lung fields.

(Killip Class III, NCI Thesaurus)

The presence of rales over more than 50% of the lung fields.

(Killip Class III, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The absence of rales over the lung fields and absence of third heart sound (S3).

(Killip Class I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A classification of myocardial infarction characterized by an absence of rales over the lung fields and an absence of S3.

(Killip Class I, NCI Thesaurus)

The presence of rales over 50% or less of the lung fields or the presence of a third heart sound (S3).(ACC/AHA)

(Killip Class II, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Signs and symptoms include shortness of breath, pitting edema, enlarged tender liver, engorged neck veins, and pulmonary rales.

(Congestive heart failure, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding associated with a patient based on the classification developed by Killip and Kimball, which classifies patients with myocardial infarction based on routine physical examination parameters, such as the presence or absence of rales, or a decreased systolic blood pressure.

(Killip Class, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology codelist based on the classification developed by Killip and Kimball, which classifies patients with myocardial infarction based on routine physical examination parameters, such as the presence or absence of rales, or a decreased systolic blood pressure.

(CDISC SDTM Killip Class Responses Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Clinical symptoms of heart failure include: unusual dyspnea on light exertion, recurrent dyspnea occurring in the supine position, fluid retention or rales, jugular venous distension, pulmonary edema on physical exam, or pulmonary edema on chest x-ray presumed to be cardiac dysfunction.

(Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)