The physician auscultates the patient's lungs with a stethoscope and hears a nonmusical, explosive sound due to the sudden opening of small airways or air moving through secretions. The physician would document this abnormal breath sound as a

A. stridor.
B. crackle.
C. rhonchus.
D. crepitus.
E. wheeze.


Answer: B

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