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What are the sounds of Korotkoff?

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The sounds of Korotkoff are produced when blood pressure is taken. They are named after Dr. Nikolai Korotkoff (1874–1920), a Russian physician who first described them in 1905, when he used a stethoscope to listen to the sounds of blood flowing through an artery.