CARDIAC MURMUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiac murmur mean? 

• CARDIAC MURMUR (noun)
  The noun CARDIAC MURMUR has 1 sense:

1. an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves

  Familiarity information: CARDIAC MURMUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIAC MURMUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cardiac murmur; heart murmur; murmur

Hypernyms ("cardiac murmur" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardiac murmur"):

systolic murmur (a murmur heard during systole)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by cholestatic jaundice in infancy, hepatosplenomegaly, distinctive facial features (prominent forehead, elongated nose, and pointed chin), cardiac murmurs, bone malformations, and sometimes mild mental retardation.

(Alagille syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)