auscultatory gap

auscultatory gap
a silent period in the knocking sounds heard with a stethoscope over an artery, between the systolic and diastolic blood pressures, when the blood pressure is measured with a sphygmomanometer.

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time in which sound is not heard in the auscultatory method of sphygmomanometry, occurring particularly in hypertension and in aortic stenosis.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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