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speciality(dictionary)
speciality(dictionary)
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cracked(dictionary)
cracked(dictionary)
cracked-pot resonance(medicine)

cracked-pot sound (medicine) and speciality (iou)


cracked-pot sound (medicine)


cracked-pot sound -->
cracked-pot resonance


A peculiar sound, resembling that heard on striking a cracked pot, elicited on percussing over a pulmonary cavity that commmunicates with a bronchial tube, when the patient's mouth is open.

Synonym: cracked-pot sound.


speciality (iou)



speciality noun & adjective. . LME.
[Old French especialite (mod. specialite) or late Latin specialitas, from Latin specialis: see SPECIAL, -ITY. Cf. SPECIALTY.]
A. noun.
The quality of being special, distinctive, or limited in some respect. LME.
J. G. Murphy In the General ordinances..it would have been out of place because of its speciality.
A special or particular point or matter; in pl., particulars, details. arch. LME.
A special or distinctive feature or characteristic. E17.
Law. = SPECIALTY noun 5. Now rare. L17.
A special or particular branch of a subject, profession, etc., which one studies or in which one works; a particular activity or interest to which one devotes oneself; = SPECIALTY noun 6. M19.
L. Woolf Jean Thomas..made a speciality of taking nerve or mental patients. Vanity Fair An elite corps of marksmen..whose speciality is apprehending barricaded suspects.
b. An article or service specially characteristic of, dealt in, or produced by, a particular place, firm, etc; = SPECIALTY noun 6b. M19.
Dickens Romantic drama..is the speciality of your theatre. L. Chamberlain Smoked sprats, a speciality of the Baltic states.
An unusual or distinctive thing. M19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to a speciality or specialities; of the Nature of a speciality, esp. unusual, distinctive. E20.
Times Review of Industry Three different marketshousehold and pharmaceutical products and speciality foods. Bon Appetit The cookies..are available in speciality Food stores. New Scientist A substance derived from oranges, now used for speciality beers in Belgium.