heart murmur

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Noun

heart murmur (countable and uncountable, plural heart murmurs)

1. (medicine) 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.

Translations

sound produced when blood is pumped across a heart valve, loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心臟雜音 / 心脏杂音 (xīnzàng záyīn), 心雜音 / 心杂音 (zh) (xīnzáyīn)

• Finnish: sydämen sivuääni
• French: souffle cardiaque (fr) m
• German: Herzgeräusch n
• Hungarian: szívzörej (hu)
• Macedonian: шум на срце m (šum na srce)
• Swedish: blåsljud n