Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Double-beating: applied to the pulse when for one heart-beat there are two arterial pulses as felt by the finger or shown by the sphygmograph.
- Pertaining to a dicrotic pulse.
- The smaller corresponding crest or wave in pulses not dicrotic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to dicrotism.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
dicrotism
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Examples
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He slept well the following night and midday there was little change, except that the pupils acted to light, and the pulse had risen to 88, becoming dicrotic and small.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Killed off my first nurse out of hand -- good little boy, conscientious enough; took no care of himself; ate his meals in the sick-room against my wishes; off he went -- dicrotic pulse, diarrhea, vomiting, hospital, thrombosis of pulmonary artery, _pouf_, requiescat. "
A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886
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