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heart murmur

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English

Syllables
heart -mur-mur
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

heart murmurs (plural)

Synonyms

cardiac murmur murmur

Questions

What does heart murmur mean?
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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