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- In anatomy, the precordium or praecordium is the portion of the body over the heart and lower chest. Defined anatomically, it is the area of the anterior...
- (redirect from hyperactive precordium) Hyperdynamic precordium is a condition where the precordium (the area of the chest over the heart) moves too much...
- felt at the point of maximum impulse (PMI), which is the point on the precordium ****hest outwards (laterally) and downwards (inferiorly) from the sternum...
- cause cardiac arrest when applied at the right time and location of the precordium of an adult. The 50-joule threshold, however, can be considerably lower...
- best hear it at the apex location and it may radiate to the axilla or precordium. When ****ociated with mitral valve prolapse, one may hear a systolic click...
- sudden cardiac arrest caused by a blunt, non-penetrating trauma to the precordium, which causes ventricular fibrillation of the heart. Cardiac arrest and...
- crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with the heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. It is felt to result from the heart...
- [citation needed] LAHB may be a cause of poor R wave progression across the precordium causing a pseudoinfarction pattern mimicking an anteroseptal infarction...
- "paradox" refers to the fact that heart sounds may be heard over the precordium when the radial pulse is not felt.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location...
- crunching sound due to spontaneous mediastinal emphysema, heard over the precordium. At the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 one of the four medical schools...