S1 and S2 are the normal heart sounds you hear when the heart valves close. Heart murmurs are extra sounds that can be heard during systole, diastole, or as a continuous sound. S3 and S4 are abnormal ...

Doctors have been listening to the sounds our bodies make for years. Before the invention of stethoscopes, they simply put their ears to their patients' chests or abdomens. The technical term for this ...

S1 is the first heart sound that doctors can hear using a stethoscope. The vibrations that occur when the mitral and tricuspid valves in the heart close produce the S1 sound. There are two common ...

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When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

San Francisco, CA - Calling into question the "time-honored" tradition of using third and fourth heart sounds to identify cardiac abnormalities, a new study indicates that the overall diagnostic ...