Having evaluated the location and the size of our patient’s apical impulse, we shall now together evaluate the contour and as the timing device we shall use the carotid vessel, placing a cotton swab on the vessel, so that we can identify systole and then we place another cotton swab over this inferolaterally displaced and enlarged apical impulse. Let's time the apical movement together. [Cut-away]
Choose the best description of the contour of the apical impulse: