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How to pronounce bruit in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rumor, rumour
Type of dish the dirt, gossip

Examples of bruit

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Unfortunately, most narrowed carotid arteries don't generate a bruit.
From the stltoday.com
It was a whole barricade of bruit, a colossus of clamour.
From the dailymail.co.uk
When you are secure in an opinion, don't bruit it about.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Amid this bruit of rotor blades, male barking, and bantam outthrusts of chest, Nasrah's hallucinations ended.
From the theatlantic.com
Furthermore, there was no bruit in his artery.
From the stltoday.com
Several studies have shown that starting preventive measures for stroke on the basis of screening for carotid bruit aren't useful, Aboyans said.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Rumor: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"
  • Bruit (or as French) is the term for the unusual sound that blood makes when it rushes past an obstruction (called turbulent flow) in an artery when the sound is auscultated with the bell portion of a stethoscope.
  • To spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc
  • (bruited) to spread news, make noise
  • Sound produced by the blood flowing though a graft, fistula, or shunt.
  • [Jer.10:22; Nah.3: 19] Report; rumor, to noise abroad.
  • Noise and clamour, and by extension rumours and reports made public.
  • Rumor, fame (n); spread rumor (v). FS (6-3H6, 2H4, T&C, Timon, Ham, Q2, Edw3); Golding Ovid; Brooke Romeus; Sundrie Flowers (E/N); Lyly Bombie; (anon.) Ironside, Arden; Harvey Pierce's Super; Chettle Kind Hart.
  • A sound or murmur heard in auscultation, especially an abnormal one.