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.

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