Murmur
121mid-diastolic murmur — a mainly low frequency cardiac murmur beginning a short time after the second heart sound; it is associated with early ventricular filling and is caused by turbulence in the ventricle due to altered flow of blood through one or both… …
122mitral murmur — cardiac murmur due to disease of the mitral valve …
123musical murmur — a cardiac murmur, usually systolic, resulting when the responsible vibrations have a periodic harmonic pattern …
124organic murmur — a murmur due to a lesion in the organ or organ system being examined …
125pansystolic murmur — a regurgitant murmur that extends throughout systole and is due to blood flow between two chambers normally of very different pressures in systole; the most common causes are mitral or tricuspid regurgitation and ventricular septal defects.… …
126presystolic murmur — (PSM) a cardiac murmur occurring immediately prior to ventricular ejection, usually associated with atrial contraction and the acceleration of blood flow through a narrowed atrioventricular valve …
127regurgitant murmur — a cardiac murmur due to regurgitation of blood through an abnormal valvular orifice, usually occurring throughout systole. Cf. ejection m …
128seagull murmur — a raucous murmur with musical qualities resembling the call of a seagull, such as that heard occasionally in aortic insufficiency, and attributed specifically to eversion or retroversion of the right anterior aortic cusp …
