A murmur is the sound of blood being pumped through the heart's chambers and valves. |
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Cath watched long enough that the sounds in the cafeteria became a distant murmur, a sort of background noise to her thoughts. |
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It sounds so innocuous, so harmless, like it would barely cause a murmur or a ripple. |
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The whole medical section was silent for a moment save for the hum of equipment, then the background murmur started again. |
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Snow-like petals carpeted the lawn, softening the sound of footsteps to a distant murmur. |
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Usually a heart murmur is detected by a doctor who's listening to the heart with a stethoscope during a routine exam. |
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There was a general murmur of thanks and hope-she-gets-betters, and then, one by one, they all left the hall in hushed excitement. |
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I let out a breath, along with a little murmur of thanks to whatever god might be up there. |
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He has always answered questions slowly at a voice level hardly above a murmur and it is no different today. |
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He asked quietly in almost a murmur, shifting only slightly in his seat so as not to disturb his precious burden. |
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Receiving only an inaudible murmur in response, he returned his attention to the occupied seats across the room. |
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A murmur of disbelief spread through the room, but quieted when she spoke again. |
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The young woman's attack raises a murmur of approval from the other women in the room. |
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A soft murmur of agreement swept through the rest of them, and they were now facing the General with determination in their eyes. |
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As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter. |
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The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence. |
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Nary a murmur of dissent was voiced amongst the remarkably relaxed muso crowd. |
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The revelations silenced most supporters and he was hanged in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916 with scarcely a murmur of protest. |
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Sometimes, a doctor can determine with the stethoscope alone whether a particular murmur is a sign of heart disease. |
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His face turned bright red as he began to murmur an answer while staring at her sheet. |
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And in both airports, the Swiss army knife on my keychain in my purse went through without a murmur. |
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When Antoninus died on 7 March 161, Marcus Aurelius succeeded without a murmur from either the army or the Senate. |
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The normal bustling activity of the place had subsided to a murmur by this time of night. |
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He kept his disappointments to himself, a quiet murmur of disapproval usually being as far as it went. |
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Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo. |
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There was no jugular venous distension, murmur, rub, gallop, thrill, or heave. |
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Her jugular venous pressure was raised, she had a pansystolic murmur, and no added heart sounds. |
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As the tangents diverge, a sample of found sound enters the piece, with crowd murmur and the whine of vehicle brakes. |
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But they know they're on a hiding to nothing if they raise a murmur of objection. |
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She had sufficient control over herself to accept his decision without a murmur, and to resign herself to his will. |
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He would murmur a quiet corrective now and then, or insert an informative note, but never parade his learning. |
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Ian thought he heard a murmur ripple through the crowd, and glanced quickly over his shoulder. |
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An ominous murmur rippled through the crowd and many turned to examine their neighbors. |
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And in both airports, the Swiss army knife on my key chain in my purse went through without a murmur. |
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A brief murmur rippled through the assembly of firefighters only to be silenced by a gavel banging. |
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In the 1930s and 1940s they saw hundreds of thousands of their fellow members liquidated, without a murmur of opposition. |
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Manifestations include cardiomegaly, heart murmur, friction rub secondary to pericarditis, and congestive heart failure. |
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Aside from the soft murmur of the pale man speaking to the hooded one and the occasional drip of some liquid, it was positively silent. |
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You may, possibly, seduce their wives, embezzle their money, and steal their parking space, without so much as a murmur of reproof. |
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There was a moment of near-silence in which a slight murmur of concern was audible. |
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Then it got peaceful, and everyone started eating, and there was only the low murmur of talk and laughter. |
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It really is far from the madding crowd, the surrounding palm trees do sway, murmur and rustle, and barn owls hoot softly into the night. |
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A holosystolic murmur that may radiate to the axilla, the upper sternal borders or the subscapular region is apparent on physical examination. |
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The only sound heard over the murmur of the grievers was the opening and closing of the church doors. |
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A doctor may suspect aortic valve sclerosis on hearing a heart murmur with a stethoscope. |
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The omission was not only noticed by quiet observers but triggered general audience murmur well before the show's half-way mark. |
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A precordial thrill, machinery-like murmur, and right bundle branch block were noted. |
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This systolic thrill is associated with an ejection type murmur heard best over the pulmonary area. |
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After a time he lost the power of walking and had to exchange his daily constitutional for a bath chair, but no murmur of complaint escaped him. |
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Every so often, the roar would drop to a murmur, only to swell again after the next ball hit the ground with a muffled thud. |
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Their vocals murmur melancholically, and every listen reveals something else in the depths of sound that you hadn't noticed before. |
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Another sound in the nickelodeons was the murmur of immigrant voices translating aloud the titles into the languages of Europe. |
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Which is more than can be said for the DJ, who made it through the evening without so much as a murmur. |
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There was always a slight murmur, like the muted buzz of wasps in their nest. |
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This deal would have gone through without a murmur if we hadn't fought back. |
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They found a bier in the hall and candles burning, and were taken into an inner room to murmur condolences. |
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Bear all miseries and evil without any murmur of hurt, without any thought of unhappiness, without any resistance, remedy or retaliation. |
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All was quiet as death, silent as the grave, save for the faint murmur of my own breathing. |
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A tricuspid regurgitant murmur may be heard, becoming more prominent as the right ventricle dilates. |
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I rub her back, rock back and forth, murmur soothing nothings against her hair until the cramp subsides. |
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Without mum to say they won't eat potatoes they will probably do what you suggest without a murmur. |
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The teacher was Ok, though, and she accepted my excuse of being lost without a murmur. |
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After birth, the first sign of congenital heart disease is often the presence of a heart murmur. |
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Adding to the mesmerizing murmur of the flowing water, the sounds of birds singing and cows mooing left one feeling totally at peace. |
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All the while, the pitter-patter of beats, the abstracted swish of rain-washed streets and murmur of German voices. |
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With a feeble murmur her head drooped backward from a sudden spell of dizziness. |
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The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him. |
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The noises of the performance were now a distant murmur, but other than that it was completely silent. |
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Remarkably, his countrymen, who had seen him swap valuable D-marks for worthless Ostmarks in 1990, accepted his decision with barely a murmur of dissent. |
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Chloe heard herself murmur polite thank-yous and good nights to their hosts and the various guests they encountered on their path to the front door. |
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Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one. |
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And the introduction of accumulators, where gamblers can win huge sums with a low stake by predicting a series of wins, gave him the odd heart murmur down the years. |
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She weakly summoned the strength to murmur a goodbye, and then hung up. |
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The odd whistle and occasional murmur slipped through from the usually voluble Parisians but otherwise they remained as unemotional as the protagonists on court. |
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A low murmur of disapproval rippled throughout the audience. |
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The first scene opens with the people of Thebes lying down on the stage as if almost dead and singing a monotonous murmur marked by the arhythmical beat of a drum. |
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It is a deviation from the party line, but a murmur of assent goes up. |
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The guests continued to chitchat through the meal, the conversation lulling to a dull murmur near the middle as they became full and rather sleepy. |
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Then in a kind and soothing murmur he ran over the important points with Vance, who stood like one stunned. |
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He had a loud and a soft systolic murmur over the tricuspid area. |
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The mix of cooking segments, pop concerts, and celebrity interviews is met with an unappreciative murmur. |
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Many Eastwood critics, few of them academics, have done a great deal more than just murmur. |
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She goes into the kitchen and I hear the sizzle of ham competing with the murmur of talk from the other room where I've already heard a fellow praying, leading prayer. |
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Synths and strings melt together for a lush background murmur, behind the lean, precise jazz-pop song structures, all wrapped in thick, warm production. |
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If you're looking for a glamorous night out, bathed in the glow of candlelight with the unassuming murmur of trip hop in the background, than you've come to the wrong place. |
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The pin-drop silence at the start gradually melted into a gentle background murmur, full of the sound of papers rustling, friends whispering and restless feet shuffling. |
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Flags flap briskly in a stiffening wind, providing the only sounds beyond the clicking of cameras and the distant murmur of cars making their slow, careful way to the site. |
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He continues to explain himself in a murmur as the whole bank listens in. |
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Her haggard face and melancholy expression elicited a murmur of shock from the assemblage of reporters as she moved to the podium and began to speak. |
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When the change was announced in 1993 there was not a murmur of dissent. |
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I was now ready to bear whatever might ensue without a murmur. |
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Flaubert's most damning irony consists in his maintaining that an entire nation of shopkeepers can be reduced to the complacent murmur and bombination of a single voice. |
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The airy sound of a panpipe cut through the dulled murmur that the crowd generated, providing a fluctuating countermelody to the sound of a stringed instrument. |
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But all this is part of the past, and now Villahermosa awakens with the delicate murmur of the river and the fresh aroma of the flowers of the guaiacums. |
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A droopy country-and-western singer's moustache had been left to grow, unrestrained under his nose and, when he spoke, it was in a barely audible murmur. |
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There was a murmur of sympathy, and then beneath that a ripple of applause, and Ray Hartmann stood there, his heart beating, and he waited until the crowd had settled down before he spoke again. |
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Examination revealed hepatosplenomegaly, and the systolic heart murmur was detected across the precordium, with radiation to the back. |
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And if she did murmur something, why did Ingham choose not to record it? |
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They occurred without a murmur of protest from the United States. |
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Some people with MVP have both a click and a murmur and some have only a click. |
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Who can murmur sweet nothings to his adored when two soldiers armed to the teeth have been instructed never to let him out of their sight? |
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Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current. |
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The crowd on the floor responded with a half-hearted murmur of assent. |
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Fortunately, most heart murmurs in children are innocent, and Still's murmur is the most common of all innocent murmurs. |
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In Portuguese, vowels after the stressed syllable can be pronounced with murmur. |
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Physical examination showed a systolic murmur and an echocardiogram showed aortic stenosis. |
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It is possible that the realization of murmur varies among individuals or languages. |
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In that model, murmur is a compound phonation of approximately modal voice plus whisper. |
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From an articulatory perspective, that terminology is incorrect, as murmur is a different type of phonation from aspiration. |
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In fear of disease and in the interest of his health man will be muzzled and masked like a vicious dog, and that without any murmur of complaint. |
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I'll be more than keen to stage a re-match in the near-future as that night David hit the sack without a murmur and sleptawell, like a baby. |
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The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again. |
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I'll see your defective gallbladder and raise you one heart murmur and a kidney stone. |
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No murmur other than the gentle nickering of the horses rides on the air. |
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But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale. |
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The Nguni languages within the southern branch of the Bantu languages, including Phuthi, Xhosa, Zulu, Southern Ndebele and Swazi, also have contrastive murmur. |
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I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur. |
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Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent. |
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But when I got home and checked the contents of the bag, I realised that I had been allowed to take a Swiss army penknife into the ground without so much as a murmur. |
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Look at a photo, raise a glass, enjoy a laugh, shed a tear, say a thanks, murmur a praise, pull up a clump of dandelions and offer it whole, cloddy roots and all. |
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