Taber's Medical Dictionary
fremitus
(frem′ĭttŭs )
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A vibration felt when an examiner palpates a body part, esp. the chest/lungs of the patient while the patient is speaking. Fremitus increases when the lungs are consolidated (as in pneumonia), and is blunted over a pneumothorax.
SEE: palpation
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Fremitus." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/753985/all/fremitus.
Fremitus. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/753985/all/fremitus. Accessed April 22, 2026.
Fremitus. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/753985/all/fremitus
Fremitus [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2026 April 22]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/753985/all/fremitus.
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