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noun
A sound produced when blood is pumped across a heart valve, loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope and often (but not necessarily) indicative of a physiological defect in the heart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cardiac murmur, murmur
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: symptom
Narrower terms: systolic murmur
History
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Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
