Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition in which the pulse is felt as two beats per single heartbeat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being dicrotic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.
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- noun The condition of each
beat of thepulse consisting of twosphygmographic waves
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek dikrotos, double-beating : di-, two; see di– + krotos, rattling noise.]
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From Greek di (twice) and krotos (beat)
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