Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pectoriloquy

Pectoriloquy , noun

[Latin pectus, -oris, the breast + loqui to speak: compare French pectoriloquie.]

(Medicine) The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.