Lub-dub
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech interjection
Quick meaning: Lub-dub is an interjection meaning (onomatopoeia, medicine) Used to represent the normal rhythm of the heart on auscultation, comprising the first and second heart sounds.
Meaning
(onomatopoeia, medicine) Used to represent the normal rhythm of the heart on auscultation, comprising the first and second heart sounds.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) Of a heart, to beat.
Example Sentences
I pulled my eyes away to glance downstream at a cinder cone perched at the brink of the left Esplanade above the mouth of Prospect Canyon and the still-hidden Lava Falls. My heart lub-dubbed a few beats quicker.
Ralph tried to listen above the steady lub-dub, lub-dub of Ryan's heart, but soon he grew bored. Ryan's shirt was new and the flannel still fuzzy. Ralph nipped a hole in the front of the pocket for a better view and then, lulled by the muffled lub-dub, lub-dub and the steady rise and fall of Ryan's chest, fell asleep as if he were being rocked in a cradle.
Word Forms
- lub-dup
- lub-dubs
- lub-dubbing
- lub-dubbed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pound, drum, throb, palpitate, pant, quop.
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