bruit v : tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour]

English

Etymology

Old French bruit.

Pronunciation

IPA: /'bɹu:t/

Verb

bruit

1. to echo

   And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

   Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128

2. (US, archaic Brit) to spread or disseminate a rumour etc.

   • 1997: Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him. — Don DeLillo, Underworld

French

Etymology

Old French, use as a noun of the past participle form of bruire ‘to roar’, from a Proto-Romanic alteration (by association with braire ‘cry’) of Latin rugire ‘roar’.

Pronunciation

IPA: /bʀɥi/

Noun

fr-noun m

1. a noise
2. a rumor or report

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.

The location of the stethoscope when the sound is observed can affect the diagnosis.

Associated conditions

• atherosclerosis
• risk of stroke
• renal artery stenosis
• carotid artery disease
• aortic aneurysm
• Tinnitus - Objective Tinnitus may sometimes be due to this condition.
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Giant cell arteritis
• Arteriovenous Malformation-also see Vascular Anomaly
• Goitre - notably in hyperthyroidism
• Coarctation of the aorta

See also

• Carotid bruit

External links

• American Heart Organization