While auscultating the lung fields, you note that the patient's voice sound is intensified, the voice has a nasal quality, and e's sound like a's. This describes:
a. resonance.
b. bronchophony.
c. pectoriloquy.
d. egophony.
D
Egophony is marked by increased intensity of the spoken voice, a nasal quality to the voice, and e's that become stuffy, broad a's.
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