mammary souffle

souffle /souf·fle/ (soo´f'l) a soft, blowing auscultatory sound.

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cardiac souffle  any cardiac or vascular murmur of a blowing quality.

funic souffle , funicular souffle hissing souffle synchronous with fetal heart sounds, probably from the umbilical cord.

mammary souffle  a functional cardiac murmur with a blowing sound, heard over the breasts in late pregnancy and during lactation.

placental souffle  the sound supposed to be produced by the blood current in the placenta.

uterine souffle  a sound made by the blood within the arteries of the gravid uterus.

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mammary souffle

Cardiology An innocent systolic or continuous cardiac murmur of presumed arterial origin heard during late pregnancy or in the early post-partum period that is differentiated from pathologic lesions as it is unaffected by the Valsalva maneuver. See Murmur, Valsalva maneuver.