HEART MURMUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart murmur mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART 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 ("heart 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 "heart murmur"):

systolic murmur (a murmur heard during systole)

 Context examples 

But many people have heart murmurs without having a problem.

(Heart Valve Diseases, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Your doctor can hear a heart murmur with a stethoscope.

(Heart Valve Diseases, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The main sign of heart valve disease is an unusual heartbeat sound called a heart murmur.

(Heart Valve Diseases, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)