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murmur2 CONSTRUCTSMurmured voiceLAVER · BREATHYHeart murmurETCHELLS · HEART

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Phonetics

A breathy phonation with partly open vocal folds

In phonetics murmur, or breathy voice, is a phonation type in which the vocal folds vibrate while remaining somewhat apart, so that voicing is accompanied by audible airflow and a characteristic soft, aspirated quality. Laver's 1980 The phonetic description of voice quality sets murmur within a systematic taxonomy of phonation types, between full modal voicing and a whisper. It is contrastive in languages such as Gujarati and underlies the so-called voiced aspirates of Indo-Aryan. The referent is a laryngeal setting of the voice, a construct that shares only its name with the turbulent sound a stethoscope picks up over the heart.[1]

Unit
A laryngeal phonation setting with incomplete glottal closure during voicing
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by spectral tilt, open-quotient and airflow measures, and electroglottographic signatures of the glottal cycle

Cardiology

A sound from turbulent blood flow in the heart

In cardiology a murmur is an auscultated sound produced by turbulent blood flow across a valve or through an abnormal communication, graded by intensity, timing in the cardiac cycle, and location, and used to infer underlying valvular or structural disease. Etchells, Bell, and Robb's 1997 Does this patient have an abnormal systolic murmur? assembled the diagnostic evidence for distinguishing benign from pathological systolic murmurs at the bedside. The referent is an acoustic sign of cardiac blood flow, a clinical construct entirely distinct from a breathy mode of human phonation despite the shared word for a low, indistinct sound.[2]

Unit
An auscultated flow sound graded by intensity, timing, and location
Recovery means
An innocent murmur may disappear as flow conditions change; a pathological one resolves only if its structural cause is corrected
Measured by
Assessed by auscultation grading and timing, and confirmed by echocardiography of flow and valve function

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References

  1. Laver, J. (1980). The phonetic description of voice quality. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521231763
  2. Etchells, E., Bell, C., & Robb, K. (1997). Does this patient have an abnormal systolic murmur? JAMA, 277(7), 564–571. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1997.03540310062036

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