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splitting
(redirected from splitting of heart sounds)

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split·ting  (spltng)
adj.
Very severe: a splitting headache.

splitting [ˈsplɪtɪŋ]
adj
1. (Medicine / Pathology) (of a headache) intolerably painful; acute
2. (Medicine / Pathology) (of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain
n
(Psychoanalysis) Psychoanal the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.splitting - resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten
Translations
splitting [ˈsplɪtɪŋ]
A. ADJ [headache] → terrible
B. N splitting of the atomdesintegración f del átomo
splitting [ˈsplɪtɪŋ] adj
a splitting headache → un mal de tête atroce
splitting
nZerteilung f; (of wood)Spalten nt; the splitting of the atomdie Kernspaltung
adj headacherasend, heftig; there was a splitting sound (of wood)es klang, als ob etwas zerbräche; (of cloth)es klang, als ob etwas zerrisse
splitting [ˈsplɪtɪŋ] adj a splitting headacheun terribile mal di testa


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