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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A condition in which there is but one pulse-beat for each contraction of the heart: the opposite of dicrotism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol.) That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.

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  • noun physiology A condition in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows only a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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