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cardiac murmur

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cardiac murmur [′kärd·ē‚ak ¦mər·mər]
(medicine)
Any adventitious sound heard in the region of the heart. Also known as heart murmur.


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A cardiac murmur had been noted 8 years earlier but was not investigated further.
Looking around," he is told of an ideal teaching subject for his neophytes: a loud cardiac murmur caused by a defective valve in a 43-year-old man awaiting corrective surgery.
People with Sly's syndrome usually have cardiac murmurs and mental retardation, and most die before 2 years of age.
 
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