midsystolic murmur

midsystolic murmur
a cardiac murmur, usually an ejection murmur, beginning a short time after the first heart sound and ending before the second heart sound; it is almost always a functional murmur or the result of obstruction to ventricular outflow, such as occurs in aortic or pulmonary stenosis.

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