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Meanings of apical impulse in English
Portuguese
impulso apical Spanish
palpitación precordial The maximum pulse felt on the chest during heart beat.
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Examples for "apex beat"
Examples for "apex beat"
1
Paracentesis is also often done in the region of the normal apex beat.
2
This irregular ventricular contraction sometimes displaces the apex beat.
3
The heart's apex beat in the sixth interspace in the nipple line, and the precordial dulness was somewhat increased.
4
With the acute myocarditis developing, the apex beat is less positive, less accentuated, and later it becomes diffuse and even feeble.
5
The 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