Carotid bruit are discovered incidentally in an otherwise asymptomatic patient. The presence of a carotid bruit alone does not necessarily indicate the presence of stenosis, and the physical examination cannot be used to estimate the degree of stenosis, if present; therefore, any bruit must be evaluated by ultrasound or imaging. Bruit is traditionally pronounced "broot", rhyming with "boot", although the etymologically accurate pronunciation "bru´e" or "bru-e´" is common in North American medical parlance. In addition, while "bruit" and "murmur" are technically synonymous, the term "bruit" is generally reserved for arterial sounds in North America. Carotid bruit A carotid bruit is a vascular
Human body and about 23 litres of fluid inside cells. The content, acidity and composition of the water inside and outside cells is carefully maintained. The main electrolytes in body water outside cells are sodium and chloride, whereas within cells it is potassium and other phosphates. The body contains trillions of cells, the fundamental unit of life. At maturity, there are roughly 30–37 trillion cells in the body, an estimate arrived at by totalling the cell numbers of all the organs of the body and cell types. The body is also host to about the same number of non-human cells as well