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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the pulse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the pulse.
- In zoology, pulsating or pulsatile; beating with rhythmic contraction and dilatation, like a pulse; specifically, belonging to the Sphygmica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the pulse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physiology, rare Of or
pertaining to thecirculatory pulse .
Etymologies
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From the Latin sphygmicus, from the Ancient Greek σφυγμικός (sphugmikos), from σφυγμός (sphugmos, "pulse"), whence sphygm-.
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