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bruit de rape

bru·it de rape

introduced by R. Laënnec to describe harsh, rasping murmurs.

[Fr. saw, rasp]

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bruit de râpe

A retired French medical lexical import for a rasping or grating cardiac sound heard by auscultation; it is not used in the working medical parlance.

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