murmur
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If your doctor hears a murmur while listening to your heart, he or she will likely order an echocardiogram—an ultrasound of the heart that allows a doctor to diagnose the disease and determine care.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Yet they swallowed it with hardly a murmur.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
In 2018, during another hospital visit, doctors detected a heart murmur.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025
The murmur, though, appeared to come after the ball had passed Smith's bat.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
Like all of us, she was straining to listen, to make some sense out of the murmur of voices we could all hear on the other side of that door.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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