heart murmur
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- noun
- /hɑrt ˈmɜrmər/
- Specialized
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murmullos cardíacos
- After listening to my heartbeat, the physician said I had a heart murmur that needed further evaluation.
- hear a heart murmur
- a slight heart murmur
- got a heart murmur
Colonization of the valves means that we get turbulent blood flow and this causes a heart murmur.
- Colonization of the valves means that we get turbulent blood flow and this causes a heart murmur.
Examples
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The doctor explained that a heart murmur can indicate a problem with the heart valves.
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We saw children who have heart murmurs because their mothers had poor prenatal nutrition and little or no iron in their own diets.
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Yeah, now, she has a heart murmur.
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I never said this before, but I got a heart murmur like my dad did.
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I think maybe it's my heart murmur acting up again.
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Anyway, Dr. Lewis told us that you had a heart murmur.
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She has a heart murmur, the doctor says, and she needs to be careful.
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My two boys also had health problems: asthma, migraines, and a heart murmur.
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I outgrew that to a heart murmur, and it got milder the older I got, and only a few doctors have detected it the last few years.
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I raced to the ER to meet him—where we, in a matter of moments, were told he had one of the most severe heart murmurs the staff had ever heard.
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Synonyms
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A soft, unusual sound heard when the heart beats that may show a problem with valves or blood flow
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A soft sound the heart makes when it squeezes
An unusual sound during a heartbeat that may show a problem with heart valves or blood flow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an abnormal sound heard during a heartbeat' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'heart' (the organ) + 'murmur' (a soft/abnormal sound), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to an unusual sound from the heart. The noun–noun medical naming pattern is common cross‑linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'soplo cardíaco'), which supports immediate comprehension.
Etymology
Heart murmur comes from the simple image of a soft noise in the heart. When a doctor listens to the chest, they may hear a quiet murmur, a whooshing instead of the normal 'lub-dub', so the phrase means a 'strange sound' that may show a 'valve problem'.