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Aegophony

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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The voice is said to assume a bleating quality when the chest wall overlying an area of lung consolidation is auscultated. This is because consolidated lung tends to transmit high frequencies of sound, which normally are attenuated.

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