bru·it de cuir neuf

the sound of new leather (also bruit de craquement); a creaking pericardial friction sound heard mainly in chronic pericarditis.

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bruit de cuir neuf

A retired French medical lexical import for a creaking sound of new leather (cuir neuf) due to pericardial or pleural friction, which is heard by auscultation; it is covered by “friction rub” in the working medical parlance.

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