Traube definition

Slow oscillations in blood pressure usually extending over several respiratory cycles; related to variations in vasomotor tone; rhythmical variations in blood pressure.

Synonyms: Traube-Hering waves.

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Preferred term: traube-Hering curves

<person>

A German physician and pathologist, 1818-1876.

See: Traube's bruit, Traube's corpuscle, Traube's dyspnoea, Traube's plugs, Traube's semilunar space, Traube's sign, Traube's double tone, Traube-Hering curves, Traube-Hering waves.

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Preferred term: gallop

Preferred term: achromocyte

A double sound heard on auscultation over the femoral vessels in cases of aortic and tricuspid insufficiency.

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An obsolete eponym for inspiratory dyspnoea with maximal expansion of the chest and a slow respiratory rhythm.

American spelling: Traube's dyspnea

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Preferred term: dittrich's plugs

A crescentic space about 12 cm wide, bounded medially by the left border of the sternum, above by an oblique line from the sixth costal cartilage to the lower border of the eighth or ninth rib in the mid-axillary line and below by the costal margin; the percussion tone here is normally tympanitic, because of the underlying stomach, but is modified by pulmonary emphysema, a pleural effusion, or an enlarged spleen.

(05 Mar 2000)

<clinical sign>

<clinical examination> A double sound or murmur heard in auscultation over arteries (particularly the femoral arteries) in significant aortic regurgitation.

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