A patient presents with complaints of feeling bloated. You percuss all four quadrants of the abdomen. A high-pitched, hollow-quality, drum-like sound that is heard over air-filled viscera is called:
A) Tympany.
B) Dullness.
C) Hyper-resonance.
D) Distention.
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