The maximum pulse felt on the chest during heart beat.
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Examples for "apex beat"
Examples for "apex beat"
1Paracentesis is also often done in the region of the normal apex beat.
2This irregular ventricular contraction sometimes displaces the apex beat.
3The heart's apex beat in the sixth interspace in the nipple line, and the precordial dulness was somewhat increased.
4With the acute myocarditis developing, the apex beat is less positive, less accentuated, and later it becomes diffuse and even feeble.
5The heart is found enlarged, the apex beat diffuse and there may be a systolic blow at the mitral or tricuspid valve.
Translations for apical impulse