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What does HS stand for?

Heart Sounds


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Head Shot (gaming)
Head Start
Headline Sports (television)
Headphones Stereo (Sony Walkman)
Headquarters and Service
Headset
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Health and Safety
Health Services Technician
Heart Sense (game; University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA)
Heat Sensor
Heat Shock (cells)
Heat Sink (electronics)
Heat Source
Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)
Heel Strike (ergonomics)
Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (US Navy aviation unit designation used from 1951 to present)
Helioseismology
HelpServ (IRC)
Helter Skelter (Beatles song)



Samples in periodicals archive:
The volume of an electronic stethoscope can also be adjusted to a moderate level for children because they have loud heart sounds.
Therefore, doctors can use this stethoscope to listen to faint heart sounds of an obese patient as well as strong heart sounds of a child with excellent clarity.
These unwanted disturbance signals contribute an additional difficulty in the detection of the principal fetal heart sounds (S1 and S2).
The location of fetal heart sounds can aid in indicating fetal position.
Innocent murmurs and third heart sounds in black schoolchildren.
The physician, besides a detailed clinical examination, is mainly required to auscultate the heart of each child or adult, as the case may be, for heart sounds and murmurs.
Not having to listen for heart sounds with the use of a stethoscope makes this model favored among older people.
The vet listens to the heartbeat, heart rhythm and the heart sounds to determine if the heart has any irregularities.

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