rale (ral)

chial tubes, bronchi, trachea, or larynx. Pleural råle, an abnormal sound produced within the pleura, as a friction sound, or metallic tinkling, or a succu ion sound. Sub crepitant råle, a very fine bronchial bubbling råle. - Vesicular râle. Same as crepitant rale. Ralfsia (ralf'si-a), n. [NL. (Berkeley), named in honor of John Ralfs, an English botanist.] A small genus of olive-brown seaweeds of the cla Phæosporeæ, type of the order Ralfsiaccæ. They are rather small homely plants, growing on stones, rocks, or the shells of mollusks and crustaceans. Three rally in nearly all parts of the world, in swamps and marshes. See cuts under coot, gallinule, Porzana, and Rallus.