English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamman's sign

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema produced by the heart beating against air-filled tissues.

Word forms

Hamman's sign

Etymology

Named after Johns Hopkins clinician Louis Hamman.

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