Vesicular lung sounds are soft, continuous, and low-pitched sounds that are heard during inspiration. During expiration, the sound volume become lower. Inspiratory sounds are longer in duration than expiration (3:1 ratio). Vesicular sounds are the most commonly heard lung sounds. They can be auscultated over the most of the chest wall.

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patient thorax when auscultating by stethoscope

patient position during auscultation
The patient was seated during auscultation.

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