Murmurs Of The Heart.

 
Last night,I had this brilliant shining light hit me so quick,before I could recover,it was a wonderful,wonderful feeling...I learned about a disease I had known about for a while,but not actually realised it.It's an extremely beautiful phenomena...discovering something you've always known,but realising that you din't know it for what it actually was.It's sort of like Serendipity,which is accidentally discovering something you always wanted to,but not exactly so.
"Murmurs Of The Heart,"a beautiful phrase it is,also happens to be the name of a heart defect.
It is the sound the heart makes,instead of the lub and dub that's considered healthy,when the valves that close to produce these sounds don't work well,then there are only murmurs,instead of the actual sounds.
So,basically it's a condition of leaky valves,so the murmurs are produced when there is blood flow turbulent enough to make these sounds audible.
Beautiful,isn't it?
I sort of knew that it had something to do with a disease,because a few years ago I had watched this old French film of the same title,and at the time,had be awed at the beauty of the title..but I had watched it more so,for it was a pretty old movie,like from the early 70's..it was about this boy growing up in burgeois surroundings in Post World War-II France.They hear him having a heart murmur,after a bout of Scarlet fever..so they send him to this santitorium,where he has the time of his life,or that's how much I remember of the plot,anyway.
At the time,I knew nothing about the functioning of the Human heart,nor did I know what a pun meant and now it makes so much more sense to me.
Do we ever really stop learning,at all? :D