bruit

• Listening for an abdominal bruit, especially if it is both systolic and diastolic, may help detect underlying —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Captain Hayes, who accompanied Gilbert to Newfoundland in 1583, wrote on his return The common opinion that is had of intemperation and extreme cold that should be in this country, as of some part it may be verified, namely the north, where I grant it is more colde than in countries of Europe, which are under the same elevation; even so it cannot stand with reason, and nature of the clime, that the south parts should be so intemperate as the bruit has gone Notwithstanding the chill seas in which it lies, Newfoundland is not in fact a cold country. —  The Story of Newfoundland
• The iland round about hath very many goodly bayes and harbors, safe roads for ships, the like not to be found in any part of the knowen world The common opinion that is had of intemperature and extreme cold that should be in this countrey, as of some part it may be verified, namely the north, where I grant it is more colde than in countries of Europe, which are under the same elevation: even so it cannot stand with reason and nature of the clime that the south parts should be so intemperate as the bruit hath gone. —  The Story of Newfoundland
• It is pulsatile, and a systolic bruit or a "thrilling" murmur may be heard over it. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
• And yet we rather doubt his skill upon this point; we never perceived anything more than a sound and a jog, something similar to what you hear in the cabin of a fourpenny steam-boat, and especially mistrusted the "metallic tinkling," and the noise resembling a blacksmith's bellows blowing into an empty quart-pot, which is called the bruit de soufflet_. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

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