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A short blowing sound heard on auscultation, usually a systolic murmur heard over the heart. SEE ALSO: chromosome puffs.

- veiled p. a faint pulmonary murmur, simulating the muffled flapping of a cloth in the wind.

puff 'pəf vi

1) to become distended: SWELL usu. used with up

2) to form a chromosomal puff

puff n

1) WINDGALL

2) an enlarged region of a chromosome that is associated with intensely active genes involved in RNA synthesis