lub-dub

alternative lub-dup

1. onomatopoeicmedicineUsed to represent the normal rhythm of the heart on auscultation, comprising the first and second heart sounds.

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   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.

   1982, Beverly Cleary, Ralph S. Mouse, New York, NY: HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 51

present singular third person lub-dubs · participle present lub-dubbing · participle past lub-dubbed · past lub-dubbed · alternative lub-dup

1. intransitiveOf a heart, to beat.

   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.

   1992, Michael P. Ghiglieri, Canyon, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 237