#pulmonic

A little summary / resume about our favourite activity 🩺 :)

Posted with permission... I kinda want to steth a lot of men now. Any volunteers?

There was a linguistics category on Jeopardy last night! Start at minute 13 for the entire linguistics category in a row. (Spoilers for the answers in the tags.)

The first distinction is between pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants. Pulmonic consonants are the vast majority (especially in western languages); when pronouncing one of them, the airstream comes directly from the lungs (pulmōnēs in Latin, whence the name). On the contrary, the airstream used to pronounce a non-pulmonic consonant (such as a click consonant) comes from somewhere else or is completely absent. Let’s now focus on pulmonic consonants. These are divided in two main branches: the obstruents and the sonorants. An obstruent consonant blocks the airstream in some manner (creating an obstruction, that is), whereas there is no such obstruction in a sonorant. Any (pulmonic) obstruent consonant pertains to one of these groups: plosive, fricative, lateral fricative, affricate. Any other consonant (nasal, lateral approximant, lateral trill, trill, flap/tap, approximant) is a sonorant.

nursing notes 005: 5 AREAS FOR LISTENING TO THE HEART "All People Enjoy Time Magazine" is the mnemonic I was taught to remember the points of auscultation of the heart. All = Aortic People = Pulmonic Enjoy = Erb’s Point Time = Tricuspid Magazine = Mitral