The Heart and Blood: the sounds heard via a stethoscope when using a sphygmometer that indicated systolic and diastolic pressure (sharp tapping at systolic pressure; tap followed by wooshing; crisp tap; dull thudding and silence at diastole pressure ).

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the sounds heard via a stethoscope when using a sphygmometer that indicated systolic and diastolic pressure (sharp tapping at systolic pressure; tap followed by wooshing; crisp tap; dull thudding and silence at diastole pressure ).

C.A McElhatton · Accepted Answer

Korotkoff sounds

The Heart and Blood

The sounds heard via a stethoscope when using a sphygmometer that indicated systolic and diastolic pressure (sharp tapping at systolic pressure; tap followed by wooshing; crisp tap; dull thudding and silence at diastole pressure ).

Korotkoff sounds

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