cardiac murmur

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsheart murmurmurmur

   Broadersymptom

   Narrowersystolic murmur

Questions about cardiac murmur

What does cardiac murmur mean?

cardiac murmur means "an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves".

What is another word for cardiac murmur?

Close synonyms include heart murmur, murmur. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardiac murmur a common word?

cardiac murmur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.